airling

English

Etymology

air +‎ -ling

Noun

airling (plural airlings)

  1. (obsolete) A thoughtless, light-hearted person.
    • Ben Jonson
      Some more there be, slight airlings, will be won
      With dogs and horses, or perhaps a whore.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for airling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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