2. Adjective. (dialectal) fretful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pindling
1. puny or sickly [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pindling
Literary usage of Pindling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drugs, Law Enforcement And Foreign Policy: Report By The Committee On by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"Bannister and pindling in return provided Vesco protection from extradition.
In part, as a result of his dual relationship with Vesco and Pin- • Betzner ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Yes, when your pore young maw died at your birth, and you was left a leetle,
pindling, motherless babe, not scarce able to cry, it was me, your nighest ..."
3. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1868)
"A black lie ! " " You don't say so," returned her hostess. " Do you suppose
you 've stopped growing ? Been sickly, I guess ? You look rather pindling. ..."
4. American English by Gilbert Milligan Tucker (1921)
"pindling—Weak and growing weaker, B. PINE BARRENS—Sandy tracts with some pine
trees, 1775. PINERY—Plantation of pine, 1822. PINKY—Kind of boat, ..."
5. Short Stories in the Making: A Writers' and Students' Introduction to the by Robert Wilson Neal (1914)
"Only when you looked into the eye—which was hard to catch—did you see that the
dwindling legs and the pindling cranium might be truer indexes of the man's ..."
6. Peace in Friendship Village by Zona Gale (1919)
"Awful pindling-looking children, the Swensons were, and there were most as many
of them as there were cats. When she got to the gate, Mis' Sykes turned ..."
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