different between overking vs overling

English

Etymology

over- +? king

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v?(?)?k??/

Noun

overking (plural overkings)

1. A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes; a ruler of an overkingdom.
   • 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People

     the King of Connaught, who was recognized as overking of the island by the rest of the tribe […]

Translations

References

• overking in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• revoking

English

Etymology

From over +? -ling on analogy with underling, or as a revived or dialectal term from Middle English overling (“a superior”), equivalent to over +? -ling.

Noun

overling (plural overlings)

1. (rare) A superior.
   • 1917, Rudyard Kipling, Mesopotamia (poem)

     But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, [...]

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

     Reflex laughs from the underlings present, though only grim smiles from the overlings.

2. (Britain dialectal) A ruler; master.

Antonyms

• underling

References

• Oxford English Dictionary

Anagrams

• Lovering, gloverin, lovinger, reloving