Noun: badling
| Singular | badling |
| Plural | badlings |
Sample Sentences
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Some people say you can’t go back home, but for a badling of Ducks, that is not true. [2024 July 31, Carter Bordwell, “Once a Duck…”, in Taylor Press, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2026:]
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Wisps of snipe and badlings of duck sprang into the air [1921 October, Samuel Scoville Jr., “High Sky”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas, volume XLVIII, page 1062:]
Nouns inflected like badling
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English *badling, from Old English bædling (“an effeminate person”), or simply bad + -ling. See: Old English Nouns '
bædling'.