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Twitling vs Witling - What's the difference?

twitling | witling |

As nouns the difference between twitling and witling

is that twitling is a little twit while witling is a person who feigns wit, pretending or aspiring to be witty.

twitling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A little twit.
  • *1984 , Martyn Hammersley, Peter Woods, Life in school :
    • "You twit, Long!" ... "You twitling', '''twitling'''! ' Twitling !"
  • *2007 , Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora :
    • "Pipe down, twitlings ." Chains poured a splash of the quicksilver wine into Locke's glass and handed it back to him.

    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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