The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lordling \Lord"ling\, n. [Lord + -ling.]
A little or insignificant lord.
--Goldsmith.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An unimportant or petty lord. 2 A young lord.
Usage examples of "lordling".
As it transpired, Micheline de Parnasse was abed that day with an ague in the joints, and I spoke to her assistant instead, the Siovalese lordling.
He yelped in a most unmaesterlike fashion, while Alayne turned to soothe the little lordling, but too late.
Kirsty was to be my partner in the first eightsome, and she jilted me, by gad--looked through me when I went to claim her--and danced all night with that rotten lordling.
Disengaging himself from her, he turned back toward the lordlings, laughing faces and gleaming steel arrayed against him.
Lisanne sipped tepid orgeat brought by some lordling produced by Sally Jersey as a suitable partner.
Those three came most often, but there were others: the squinter, the lordling, the starved man.
High House lordling out of Solcintra when addressing a mouse of unexalted birth.
The man behind us, a former lordling named Eryon, guessed they were nearing the coast of Tharkoon.
If I replaced you eager tarts with women from, perhaps, Bedroom 3, how might they receive a dozen lordlings tonight?
Dalereuth, home of the illegal circles that made clingfire and worse for any lordling who could pay, or Temora on the sea coast, or far Aldaran.
It was a fairly good club,--with a sprinkling of Liberal lordlings, a couple of dozen of members of Parliament who had been made to believe that they would neglect their party duties unless they paid their money, and the usual assortment of barristers, attorneys, city merchants, and idle men.
Four of the young lordlings had taken refuge behind a massive elm, now stripped of foliage.
The barons and lordlings constantly tried to undercut royal authority, or even steal openly from the court, and his Lady Master was no help at all, using her spells too seldom to engender any fear that might in turn breed obedience.
Outside the entrance to the Great Hall, two young lordlings were chivying a third about a girl whom he dared not speak to.
Lordling turned with decision toward the door in the enclosure wall.