airling
English
Etymology
air + -ling
Noun
airling (plural airlings)
- (obsolete) A thoughtless, light-hearted person.
- Ben Jonson
- Some more there be, slight airlings, will be won
With dogs and horses, or perhaps a whore.
- Some more there be, slight airlings, will be won
- Ben Jonson
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for airling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- glairin, lairing, nargili, railing