gadeling

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gadling

Etymology

From Old English gædeling (“kinsman, fellow, companion in arms, comrade”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaduling. By surface analysis, gade +‎ -ling.

Noun

gadeling (plural gadelings)

1. gadling, vagabond
   • c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 937-8.

     These bowes two held Swete-Loking,
     That seemed lyk no gadeling.

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Descendants

• English: gadling
• Scots: gedling, getling