English

Noun

hinderling ‎(plural hinderlings)

1. (Britain dialectal) A worthless, degenerate person or animal.
   • 1813, Joseph Neef, The Method of Instructing Children Rationally in the Arts of Writing and Reading

     An animal you deem good for nothing, you may term a hinderling.

   • 1889, John Milton Stearns, The germs and developments of the laws of England

     […] from which the West Saxons, namely the men of Exeter have a saying of the greatest contempt, in that when moved by the highest wrath they call one another a hinderling, that is, one sunk down from all honor.

   • 2010, D. M. Cornish, Factotum

     "How? How do I know? Know that you are there or know that you are a rossamünderling? An ouranin? A manikin? A hinderling? A pink-lips? A fake-foe? […] "