witling

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One Presidential pretender out to out-stump Tom Dewey and all the rest is the Surprise Party's nominee�Gracie Allen, witling half of the radio & cinema team of Burns & Allen.

From Time Magazine Archive

The point of the witling joke against La Salle was a new version of the old adage: Go farther and fare worse.

From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by Wood, William Charles Henry

It was a tone of authority that the witling recognized, and it commanded his weak will and giant strength.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

It could not, with the witling in the play, cap verses with any man.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various

"Away with scythe and sickle," shouted the witling; "it's many a day since the fields of Wish-Ton-Wish have been trodden down by horsemen in buff jerkins, or ambushed by creeping Wampanoags."

From The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by Cooper, James Fenimore