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Meanling vs Meazling - What's the difference?

meanling | meazling |

As a noun meanling

is one who is mean or common; a commoner.

As an adjective meazling is

falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing.

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.

    meazling

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing.
    • (Arbuthnot)
    (Webster 1913)