Witling vs Titling - What's the difference?
witling | titling |
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."
The hedge sparrow, or titlene.
* Holland
The meadow pipit.
(obsolete, in customhouses) stockfish
(Webster 1913)
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
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(en noun)Anagrams
*titling
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Icelandic word for a tit sparrow. See .Noun
(en noun)- The titling , being thus deceived, hatcheth the egg, and bringeth up the chick of another bird.