"meanling" meaning in All languages combined

See meanling on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: meanlings [plural]
Etymology: From mean + -ling. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|mean|ling}} mean + -ling Head templates: {{en-noun}} meanling (plural meanlings)
  1. One who is mean or common; a commoner.

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1876, Joseph Ellis, Cæsar in Egypt, Costanza, and other poems:",
          "text": "At them at once! and bring them to their senses. What ? recreants, cowards, meanlings, to refuse A fair return to whom you owe your shoes! Downcast, ashamed, they all before me creep, And do my bidding like a flock of sheep.",
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        {
          "ref": "1982, Isaac Asimov, Alice Laurance, Speculations:",
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