princeling

Definitions

Examples

• Once a pampered princeling, Yarvi cannot single-handedly succeed (literally or figuratively) and so must become a leader.

• A born-to-the-political-manor princeling has thrown up a white flag—and the worst may be yet to come.

• Mr. Xi is a princeling, while Mr. Hu is a technocrat, although Mr. Xi has been successful at bridging the divide.

• But after he got to Oxford, the young princeling reportedly went off the rails.

• An Oxford student magazine article said the Chinese princeling had a “strained relationship with books.”

• He was a little German princeling, with a pretty moustache, and rounded hips.

• There was very little semblance of order; a rajah preceded a princeling, and so on down.

• This last-born princeling soon learned how to float on his back, with his round little head just showing above the kelp.

• Your young count or princeling can live like a pig until matrimony crops up.

• Think of what every fathead princeling and beer-swilling ritter from here to Basel would say!