Greeklingn.
/ˈɡriːklɪŋ/ A little or insignificant Greek; a degenerate, contemptible Greek; in quot. 1880, one who contemptibly affects Græcisms.
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Greekc893
Gregois13..
Griffon13..
Grewa1375
Hellene1482
Grecana1500
Argive?1532
Greciana1549
Hellenist1606
Greeklinga1637
Graecaster1716
Helladian1773
bubble and squeak1938
bubble1962
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2561 in Wks. (1640) III Which of the Greekelings durst ever give precepts to Demosthenes?
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 17 The Talkative Greeklings (as Ben Johnson calls them).
1850 J. S. Blackie in tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 331 'Tis one of the many tricks of that wisdom of words which the curious Greeklings sought..in the rough Gospel of St. Paul.
1861 Q. Rev. 110 472 The hack jeer of the upstarts of the time at all Greeks as ‘Greeklings’, and all philosophers as babblers.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. 46 Ye abject Greeklings, Greeks no longer.
1880 F. A. March Spelling Reform 25 Ake also is restored and ache turned over to the Greeklings.
1881 Times 6 Apr. 12/1 The commercially-minded little Greekling.
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