adjective
- small, weak, or sickly in appearance; puny
Usage: regional; informal
Examples
- The pindling kitten needed extra care and feeding.
- He was a pindling child who often got sick.
- The pindling plant struggled to grow in the poor soil.
- She worried about her pindling baby’s slow weight gain.
- The pindling seedlings looked too weak to survive the frost.
- His pindling frame made him look younger than his age.