Bantling vs Mantling - What's the difference?
bantling | mantling |
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]
* 1841 , James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Deerslayer/Chapter_1]
*:"You!--half-grown, venison-hunting bantling !..."
As nouns the difference between bantling and mantling
is that bantling is an infant or young child while mantling is (heraldry) the representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms.As a verb mantling is
.bantling
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.