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Godling vs Gadling - What's the difference?

godling | gadling |

As nouns the difference between godling and gadling

is that godling is minor divinity, a local or inferior god while gadling is roving vagabond; one who roams.

godling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • minor divinity, a local or inferior god
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1919 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=Warlord of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=The Jeddak of Ptarth nodded his assent, but the ugly scowl that he bent upon Matai Shang harbored ill for that pasty-faced godling . }}

    See also

    * demi-god * halfgod * hero * idol * spirit

    References

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    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