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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WITLING, n. [dim. From with.] A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
A beau and witling perishd in the throng.

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1693 1. a would-be wit 2. a person of little wit

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. archaic usu. derog. a person who fancies himself or herself as a wit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Witling 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

n. Wiseacre, Gothamite, blunderer, pretender to wisdom, man of small wit. See dunce.

Moby Thesaurus

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