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单词 timeling
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timelingn.

Brit. /ˈtʌɪmlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtaɪmlɪŋ/
Forms: see time n., int., and conj. and -ling suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: time n., -ling suffix1.
Etymology: < time n. + -ling suffix1.
Now archaic and rare.
A time-server.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming > temporizer or trimmer
Jack of both sides1554
mongrela1555
timeling1554
temporizer1555
time-taker1576
politique1581
time-server1583
time-pleaser1590
time observer1594
temporist1596
please-time1606
timist1614
timorist?1623
trimmer1682
Vicar of Bray1725
timer1842
1554 T. Becon Humble Supplicacion sig. Civv Ministers, whiche are faynteharted, and..but tymelinges, seruing rather the time (as the manner of the worldlinges is).
1631 A. Wilson Swisser ii. i. 158 What sayes my Lip-Ladds? My little Time-lings?
1846 Yale Lit. Mag. Nov. 37 The slavish timelings who would fain believe with their royal conscience-keeper, were unable to follow the king through all his capricious windings.
1914 A. H. Plumb When Mayflowers Blossom x. 177 Those saint-seeming, well-officed timelings,..whose own livelihood fed upon formalism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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