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Witling vs Titling - What's the difference?

witling | titling |

As nouns the difference between witling and titling

is that witling is a person who feigns wit, pretending or aspiring to be witty while titling is the hedge sparrow, or titlene.

As a verb titling is

present participle of lang=en.

witling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a person who feigns wit, pretending or aspiring to be witty
  • a person with little wit
  • *1942:' Maurine Whipple, ''The Giant Joshua'' by - "But the ' witlings of the bunch were those two swaggering there in the popular conception of western dress...."
  • *1955:' Rex Stout, ''Immune to Murder'' - "...only a ' witling would call a man with my conceit a liar."

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    titling

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Icelandic word for a tit sparrow. See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The hedge sparrow, or titlene.
  • * Holland
    • The titling , being thus deceived, hatcheth the egg, and bringeth up the chick of another bird.
  • The meadow pipit.
  • (obsolete, in customhouses) stockfish
    • (Webster 1913)

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