Etymology

baseling

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Today it means: One who is base or inferior Full definition →

Middle English baseling
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  1. Middle English · inherited frombaseling
  2. English todaybaseling

From Middle English baseling (attested only in the sense of debased coinage), equivalent to base + -ling.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.