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

Show me a perfectly happy man, and I will show you an ignorant witling, light-headed, hardhearted, and of a most powerfully good digestion!

From Ardath by Corelli, Marie

Her age was the favorite theme of the callow witling, her cause a never-failing subject for reproach and abuse.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted

The following will exemplify the active meaning of this verb:  Sir Strut, for so the witling throng  Oft called him when at school,  And hitch'd him up in many a song  To sport and ridicule.

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James

But the chopping-boss, his humorous gaze on the witling, remarked: “I reckon I’ll have to rule that song out, after this, ‘Hitchbiddy.’”

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman