Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Witling \Wit"ling\, n. [Wit + -ling; cf. G. witzling.]
   A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to
   wit or smartness.

         A beau and witing perished in the forming. --Pope.

         Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks!
                                                  --Goldsmith.