overling

== English == === Etymology === From over +‎ -ling on analogy with underling, or as a revived or dialectal term from Middle English overling (“a superior”). By surface analysis, over +‎ -ling. === Noun === overling (plural overlings) (rare) A superior. 1917, Rudyard Kipling, Mesopotamia (poem) But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, [...] (UK dialectal) A ruler; master. ==== Antonyms ==== underling === References === Oxford English Dictionary === Anagrams === Lovering, lovering, gloverin, reloving, lovinger