judgeling

English

Etymology

From judge +‎ -ling.

Noun

judgeling (plural judgelings)

  1. A minor or petty judge.
    • 1862, Sir Richard Francis Burton, The City of the Saints:
      Thomas, the judgeling, so he was called, was cool as a cucumber, mentally and bodily: youths generally are.
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