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carpings

carpings is the plural of carping.

Meaning of carping

Noun

carping (plural carpings)

  1. Excessive complaining.
    • “Oh, stop your carping, Dawn!” I told myself. “You can't expect charming tones, and Oriental do-dads and apple trees in a German boarding-house.”1911, Edna Ferber, chapter 6, in Dawn O'Hara, the Girl who Laughed

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Questions about carpings

What is carpings the plural of?
Carpings is the plural of carping.

Words near carpings in the dictionary

  1. carpinchoes
  2. carpinchos
  3. carpindolol
  4. carping
  5. carpingly
  6. carpings
  7. Carpino
  8. Carpinos
  9. Carpinteria
  10. carpintero
  11. carpinteros

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