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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1825, 1933
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BAMLING, BEMLIN, adj. Used in the sense of clumsy or careless. [′bɛ:mlɪn Sh.; ′bɑmlɪ̢n Rxb.]Sh.4 1933:
Horse! du Bemlin brute! (Peat-boy's address to a pony being pulled over marshy ground.)Rxb. 1825 Jam.2:
A bamling chield, an awkwardly-made, clumsy fellow.[Also given in Watson Roxburghshire Word-book 1923 for n., s.Rxb. as obsol.]
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