Friday word: Witling
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Witling: 1 : a would-be wit
capt_facepalm for the word! ;)Witling: 1 : a would-be wit
2 : a person of little wit
First known use: 1693
First known use: 1693
"A beau and witling perished in the throng,
One died in metaphor, and one in song."
(from Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock [a poem about the theft of a lock of hair])
