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Gadling vs Badling - What's the difference?

gadling | badling |

As nouns the difference between gadling and badling

is that gadling is roving vagabond; one who roams while badling is an effeminate or womanish man or badling can be a brood, group, or flock of ducks.

gadling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • roving vagabond; one who roams
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1947 , year_published=2006 , edition=digitized , editor= , author=Thomas Bertram Costain , title=The Moneyman , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Doubleday , isbn= , page=57 , passage=I'm delighted to see you. You're as brown, my gadling , as though you had returned from another journey to the East with Jean de Village. }}
  • A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn; originally comrade or companion, in a good sense, but later used in reproach
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1906 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Rudyard Kipling , title=Puck of Pook's Hill , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page=96 , passage=“Pest on him!” said De Aquila. “I have more to do than to shiver in the Great Hall for every gadling the King sends. Left he no word?” }}
  • A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.

    • References

    (Webster 1913) * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

    badling

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An effeminate or womanish man.
  • *2001 , Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Insulting English :
    • "After the storm, all the women and children bailed desperately to keep the lifeboat from sinking. Not Lucas the badling , though. He just hopped up and down in the stern, flapping his arms in the air and exclaiming, 'Oh my, oh, my!'"
  • One who is bad; a worthless person.
  • *2011 , R.T. Raichev, Murder at the Villa Byzantine :
    • The presence of the badling – poor little Clemmie – was causing particular tension.

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from an alteration of (paddling).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brood, group, or flock of ducks.