Meaning

2 senses

  1. A little man; a man of short stature.

  2. (literary)A young man; a boy.

Origin

From man + -ling.

From man + -ling.

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Forms

plural: manlings
Singularmanling
Pluralmanlings

regular

Synonyms

20 synonyms
boyA1guyA1pageA1sonA1youthA2mankinbhoyboykincallantfeely-omiknaveladlittle boypillicock

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
manipulativemanipulatormankindB1manlinessmanlymannamannequin

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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