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Meanling vs Manling - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between meanling and manling

is that meanling is one who is mean or common; a commoner while manling is a little man; a man of short stature.

meanling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who is mean or common; a commoner.
  • *1876 , Joseph Ellis, Cæsar in Egypt, Costanza, and other poems :
    • At them at once! and bring them to their senses. What ? recreants, cowards, meanlings , to refuse A fair return to whom you owe your shoes! Downcast, ashamed, they all before me creep, And do my bidding like a flock of sheep.
  • *1982 , Isaac Asimov, Alice Laurance, Speculations :
    • I was not burned at the stake like a meanling . And I did not, as prelude to my death, say the cute things that are attributed to me.

    manling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A little man; a man of short stature.
  • * 1641 , , Timber, or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter :
    • Again, a man so gracious and in high favour with the Emperor, as Augustus often called him his witty manling (for the littleness of his stature), and, if we may trust antiquity, had designed him for a secretary of estate, and invited him to the palace, which he modestly prayed off and refused.
  • (literary) A young man; a boy.
  • * 1894 , , " Kaa's Hunting", ''The Jungle Book:
    • "Hah!" said Kaa with a chuckle, "he has friends everywhere, this manling'. Stand back, ' manling . And hide you, O Poison People. I break down the wall."
  • * 1965 , , Dune , Berkley (2005), ISBN 9780441013593, page 68:
    • "Before I do your bidding, manling ," Mapes said, "I must cleanse the way between us.

    Synonyms

    * (little man) * (boy) See also .