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lordling|ˈlɔːdlɪŋ|
[f. lord n. + -ling.]
1. A little or puny lord: often in contemptuous sense. Occas. = lording n. 1.
c1275Lay. 12664 Lusteþ louerdlinges. c1380Sir Ferumb. 1518 Lordlynges, wel ȝe wyteð alle, how [etc.]. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon ix. 85 What say you Royall Lordlings to my Fryer? 1746Smollett Reproof 163 While the young lordling struts in native pride. 1782E. N. Blower Geo. Bateman II. 47, I should sink myself to a level with the scoundrel lordling who employs you. 1820Coleridge Lett., Convers. etc. I. 125 How long will..this hive of nations submit to the guidance of litterateurs and lordlings? 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 II. 229 The said conjurors..possess the faculty of making the precious metals out of..the skulls of young lordlings and gentlefolk. 1872Longfellow Wayside Inn ii. Interlude bef. Student's T. Listen, Lordlings, while I tell. 1887M. Morris Claverhouse x. (1888) 170 One of these independent lordlings, Colin MacDonald of Keppoch.
†2. A kind of apple. Obs. (cf. lording n. 3.)
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. II. s.v. October, Apples now in prime..are the..Costard Lordling Parsley Apples. |