overling
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overling
Where it comes from
From over + -ling on analogy with underling, or as a revived or dialectal term from Middle English overling (“a superior”). By surface analysis, over + -ling.
noun overlings
- A superior. But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, …
- A ruler; master.
