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

A beau and witling perished in the throng,     One died in metaphor, and one in song.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

When active Pickle Smithfield stage ascends, 200 The three days' wonder of his laughing friends, Each, or as judgment or as fancy guides, The lively witling praises or derides.

From Poetical Works by Churchill, Charles

While through the press enraged Thalestris flies, And scatters death around from both her eyes, A beau and witling perished in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander

The eccentric jackanapes who is by turns the butt and witling of the school stands for once consciously on equal terms with his principal, and can for once even "cheek" the school-bully with perfect impunity.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various