fremdling
See also: Fremdling
English
editAlternative forms
edit- frameling (Scotland)
Etymology
editFrom fremd + -ling. Compare also Dutch vreemdeling, German Fremdling, Swedish främling.
Noun
editfremdling (plural fremdlings)
- (rare, dialectal or obsolete) One who is not a kinsman; a stranger
- 1640, W. Lithgow, The gushing Teares of godlie sorrow:
- There sisters for their brothers, sorrowing sore,
Last fatall framelings, one another gore.
- 1856, William Drummond, William Barclay Turnbull, The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden:
- Hills, bulwarks of our freedom, giant walls,
Which never fremdling's sleight nor sword made thralls; [...]