Witling vs Bitling - What's the difference?
witling | bitling |
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."