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Bantling vs Batling - What's the difference?

bantling | batling |

As nouns the difference between bantling and batling

is that bantling is an infant or young child while batling is a young, small, or baby bat.

bantling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An infant or young child.
  • * 1809 , Washington Irving (as Dietrich Knickerbocker), A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=774826296&textreg=2&query=+bantling&id=eaf213v1]
    • And I even question whether any tender virgin, who was accidentally and unaccountably enriched with a bantling , would save her character at parlour fire-sides and evening tea-parties, by ascribing the phenomenon to a swan, a shower of gold, or a river god.
  • * 1841 , James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Deerslayer/Chapter_1]
  • *:"You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling !..."

    • Synonyms

    * babe * brat

    batling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young, small, or baby bat.
  • *1998 , Irene Brady, Wild Babies :
    • When the batling was eight days old he fell, fluttering.
  • *2008 , Wonders of Animal Life - Page 126:
    • His flexible wings, wrapped round him, serve him as bed-clothes, and his mate carries the batling clinging to her breast even when she flies out to forage.
  • *2011 , Hayley Perridge, Flashing Lights :
    • “Now if you don't mind; I have some 'batlings' to feed, if you catch my drift.” He smiled, nodding a subtle goodbye before turning towards the open window.