streetling
Etymology
From street + -ling.
streetling means A small, inferior, or minor street. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
noun
- A small, inferior, or minor street.“[…] and was then received into a magnificent high-backed chair, covered with orange silk, and gay with flags and streamers, on which I was borne on the shoulders of six electors, nodding majestically through all the streets and streetlings; […]”
- One who frequents or lives on the streets.“This, however, it was impossible in such a bustling thoroughfare to do; a fact which the scrambling and exclamations of the half-dozen streetlings clambering on the outer railings speedily brought home to me.”