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assling

assling is the present participle and gerund of assle.

Meaning of assle

Verb

assle (third-person singular simple present assles, present participle assling, simple past and past participle assled)

  1. (intransitive) To sit, move, or scoot about on one's buttocks; loaf; wander idly around; waste time.
    • "May all her public servants arsle around like buss-eyed catawumpuses ! That's what I say. Just like they'll do tomorrow, while we set here and laugh at 'em."1951, Constance Noyes Robertson, The Golden Circle

Noun (1)

assling (uncountable)

  1. The act of loafing around; hesitation

Noun (2)

assling (plural asslings)

  1. (pejorative and offensive when applied to people) A small or young ass (all senses)
    • Already had Lecouturier, commonly called, from his Latin name, Sutor, taken the lead by launching against Erasmus, from his solitary chartreux cell, a publication replete with violence, in which he called his opponents theologasters, and asslings, imputing to them scandals, heresies, and...1843, Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Jacob Jan Le Roy, History of the Reformation in the sixteenth century
    • […] only sometimes at night she murmured or cried out in strange syllables Stag took to be her native tongue: but not often, not for long), the ass-man and the laden onagers — big, healthy, sandy or reddish-colored beasts: different from the stunty gray asslings of the Northern Capes — and rested...2012, Avram Davidson, The Island Under the Earth

Forms of assling

pluralasslings
alternative UKarseling

Origin of assling

From assle + -ing.

From ass + -ling.

Questions about assling

What does assling mean?
Assling means the act of loafing around; hesitation.
What is assling the present participle and gerund of?
Assling is the present participle and gerund of assle.
What part of speech is assling?
Assling is a noun.
What is the plural of assling?
The plural of assling is asslings.

Words near assling in the dictionary

  1. asslickers
  2. asslicky
  3. asslifter
  4. asslifters
  5. asslike
  6. assling
  7. asslings
  8. assload
  9. assloads
  10. asslord
  11. assmad

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Adapted from Wiktionary: assling (page history and authors); assle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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