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

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

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

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

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George

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