"friendling" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From friend + -ling.",
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          "ref": "1971, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine - Volume 179 - Page 7",
          "text": "Had you died before my father in a state of indigence I am sure he would have willingly paid your funeral expenses. Why make things so difficult for your friends or friendlings?",
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          "ref": "2008, Lauren Beukes, Moxyland - Page 86",
          "text": "Trophy in paw, I invest another hour twenty backtracking to find my original spawn-in spot, and reduce Fluffoki and her little friendlings to so much dead flesh, although sorry to say, it being a kids' game, they die in splatters of sparks rather than [...]",
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        "A little friend; an inferior, petty, or minor cohort"
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        "(often humorous or derogatory) A little friend; an inferior, petty, or minor cohort"
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