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Weakling vs Peakling - What's the difference?

weakling | peakling |

As adjectives the difference between weakling and peakling

is that weakling is weak, either physically, morally or mentally while peakling is sickly.

As a noun weakling

is a person of weak or even sickly physical constitution.

weakling

English

Adjective

(head)
  • weak, either physically, morally or mentally

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution
  • (figuratively) A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength.
  • * Latimer
    • We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.

    Synonyms

    * (person of weak character) sissy, walk-over

    Antonyms

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    References

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    peakling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal, Mississippi) sickly.
  • * 1930 , William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying , Library of America, 1985, p.13:
    • Jewel's eyes look like pale wood in his high-blooded face. He is a head taller than any of the rest of us, always was. I told them that's why ma always whipped him and petted him more. Because he was peakling about the house more.