warling

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noun

One often quarreled with.

OriginEnglish war ← Middle English werre ← Old English werre →
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Meanings

nounwarling (plural warlings)

plural warlings

  1. obsoleteOne often quarreled with.

    [I]t is better to be / An old mans derling than a yong mans werling.

    1546, John Heywood, chapter VII, in Julian Sharman, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood. […], London: George Bell and Sons, […], published 1874, →OCLC, part II, page 138

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wers-
  2. Proto-Germanic*werzaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*werʀan
  4. Frankish*werʀ
  5. Early Medieval Latinwerra
  6. Old Northern Frenchguerre
  7. Old Englishwerre
  8. Middle Englishwerre
  9. Englishwar
  10. Englishwarling

From war + -ling.

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APA

warling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/warling

MLA

“warling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/warling. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “warling,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/warling.

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