gadling

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A companion in arms; fellow; comrade. obsolete
    — Gedlyngis, I am a fulle grete wat, […]
    Gadlings, I am a very great man, […]
  2. A roving vagabond; one who roams.
    — I'm delighted to see you. You're as brown, my gadling, as though you had returned from another journey to the East with Jean de Village.
  3. A man of humble condition; a fellow; a low fellow; lowborn. Originally comrade or companion in a good sense, but later used in reproach.
    — “Pest on him!” said De Aquila. “I have more to do than to shiver in the Great Hall for every gadling the King sends. Left he no word?”
  4. A spike on a gauntlet; a gad.

词形变化

gadlings plural

词源

From Middle English gadelyng (“companion in arms; man, fellow; a person of low birth; rascal, scoundrel; bastard; base, lowborn”), gadeling (“vagabond”), from Old English geaduling, gædeling (“kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaduling, from Proto-Germanic *gadulingaz, *gadilingaz (“relative, kinsman”), equivalent to gad + -ling. Related to Old English ġegada (“comrade, companion”).
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