bantling
/ˈbantlɪŋ
/noun archaic
A young child.Even the little copper-coloured bantlings were heard to say, ‘What does the white people want here?’...
- Although one or two of the merrier, albeit more mischievous, bantlings are absent, the family circle will, doubtless, be found to be somewhat complete.
Origin
Late 16th century: from band1 + -ling, or a corruption of German bänkling 'bastard'.
- know-nothing
- know-nothingism
- know-nothingness
- know-not-what
- known quantity
- know one's onions
- know one's own mind
- know one's way around (or about)
- knowpert
- know someone by sight
- know someone in the biblical sense
- know something backwards
- know something for a fact
- know something inside out
- know something like the back of one's hand
- know the ropes
- know the score
- know what one is about
- know what one is talking about
- know what one likes
- know what's what
- know which side one's bread is buttered (on)
- know who's who
- Knox, Henry
- Knox, John