springald

Definitions

Examples

• Well, my wild little maid, be good enough to repeat to me what you whispered just now to that springald of a captain.

• It concerns the upstart springald whom the Princess Margaret had the bad taste to prefer to me.

• I hear that both she and the young springald who sought to set her at liberty are to be brought before him directly after supper.

• Had she, after all, made so little impression on this springald despite her tacit encouragement of him!

• This mighty horseman was carried by his steed as lightly as the young springald by his Andalusian hackney.