释义 |
kingling|ˈkɪŋlɪŋ| [f. king n. + -ling.] 1. A little or petty king. (Less contemptuous than kinglet.)
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv. Handie-Crafts 381 Prince of some Peasants..And silly Kingling of a simple Village. 1658Cleveland Rustic Rampant Wks. (1687) 477 This Upstart Kingling would not wholly move by Example. 1764Churchill Candidate 82 Enough of Kinglings, and enough of Kings. 1812Southey Omniana II. 193 The romantic adventures of a little Kingling of Ithaca. 1884Tennyson Becket Prol., You could not see the King for the kinglings. †2. (See quot.) Obs. rare.
16582nd Narr. late Parlt. 2 A Catalogue of the Kinglings, or the names of those Seventy persons (most of them being the Protectors Kinsmen, and Sallery-men) that voted for Kingship. |