different between bearling vs beardling

English

From Middle English berling, equivalent to bear +? -ling.

bearling (plural bearlings)

beard +? -ling

beardling (plural beardlings)

(archaic) One who wears a beard.
- 1568, Desiderius Erasmus, trans by Nicholas Leigh, Of the yong man and the euill disposed woman, page 1:
  bicause at your departing you had no berd at al, now you become a handsome beardling.

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