peakling

English

Etymology

Probably related to peaky.

Adjective

peakling (comparative more peakling, superlative most peakling)

  1. (dialectal, Mississippi) sickly.
    • 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, 1985, p.13:
      Jewel's eyes look like pale wood in his high-blooded face. He is a head taller than any of the rest of us, always was. I told them that's why ma always whipped him and petted him more. Because he was peakling around the house more.

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