Meaning

2 senses
  1. (rare)One who is considered bad.

  2. (collective)A brood, group, or flock of ducks.

Origin

Perhaps from Middle English *badling, from Old English bædling (“an effeminate person”), o

Perhaps from Middle English *badling, from Old English bædling (“an effeminate person”), or simply bad + -ling.

Perhaps an alteration of paddling.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: badlings
Singularbadling
Pluralbadlings

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
badling — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto