warling

noun

warling

noun

Etymology From war + -ling.

1

Obsolete One 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:

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