'Witling' definitions:
Definition of 'Witling'
From: GCIDE
- Witling \Wit"ling\, n. [Wit + -ling; cf. G. witzling.] A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. [1913 Webster]
- A beau and witing perished in the forming. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'witling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- banana,
- block,
- Boeotian,
- burlesquer,
- caricaturist,
- clod,
- clown,
- comedian,
- comic,
- cutup,
- dimwit,
- dolt,
- donkey,
- dope,
- dullard,
- dumb cluck,
- dumbbell,
- dummy,
- dunce,
- epigrammatist,
- funnyman,
- gag writer,
- gagman,
- gagster,
- Gothamite,
- gowk,
- humorist,
- ironist,
- jester,
- jobbernowl,
- joker,
- jokesmith,
- jokester,
- lackwit,
- lamebrain,
- lampooner,
- lightweight,
- looby,
- loon,
- madcap,
- niais,
- nincompoop,
- ninny,
- ninnyhammer,
- nitwit,
- noddy,
- parodist,
- prankster,
- punner,
- punster,
- put,
- quipster,
- reparteeist,
- satirist,
- smart ass,
- stupid,
- thickwit,
- wag,
- wagwit,
- wise fool,
- wise guy,
- wiseacre,
- wisecracker,
- wisehead,
- wiseling,
- wisenheimer,
- wit,
- zany