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Webster's 1828 DictionaryWITLING, n. [dim. From with.] A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. Merriam Webster'snoun Date: 1693 Oxford Reference Dictionaryn. archaic usu. derog. a person who fancies himself or herself as a wit. Webster's 1913 DictionaryWitling Wit"ling, n. [Wit + -ling; cf. G. witzling.] A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. A beau and witing perished in the forming. --Pope. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! --Goldsmith. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
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