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fondlings

fondlings is the plural of fondling.

Meaning of fondling

Noun (1)

fondling (plural fondlings)

  1. (obsolete) A foolish person.
    • Yet were her words and lookes but false and fayned, / To some hid end to make more easie way, / Or to allure such fondlings whom she trayned / Into her trap […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. A pet or person who is fondled; someone who is much loved.

Noun (2)

fondling (plural fondlings)

  1. The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
    • amorous fondling1835, Emma Whitehead, Pierce Falcon, the Outcast

Questions about fondlings

What is fondlings the plural of?
Fondlings is the plural of fondling.

Words near fondlings in the dictionary

  1. fondleslab
  2. fondleslabs
  3. fondlesome
  4. fondling
  5. fondlingly
  6. fondlings
  7. fondly
  8. fondnes
  9. fondneses
  10. fondness
  11. fondnesses

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