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ailin'

ailin' is the pronunciation spelling of ailing.

Meaning of ailing

Noun

ailing (plural ailings)

  1. An ailment.
    • When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

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What is ailin' the pronunciation spelling of?
Ailin' is the pronunciation spelling of ailing.

Words near ailin' in the dictionary

  1. ailettes
  2. ailevator
  3. ailevators
  4. Ailie
  5. ailihphilia
  6. ailin'
  7. ailing
  8. ailings
  9. Ailish
  10. aillt
  11. aillts

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