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maudling

maudling is the present participle and gerund of maudle.

Meaning of maudle

Verb

maudle (third-person singular simple present maudles, present participle maudling, simple past and past participle maudled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To render maudlin.
  3. (intransitive) To act in an excessively sentimental way.

Proper noun capitalized: Maudling

Maudling (plural Maudlings)

  1. A surname.

Forms of maudling

pluralMaudlings

Origin of maudling

Variant of Maudlin.

Questions about maudling

What does maudling mean?
Maudling means a surname.
What is maudling the present participle and gerund of?
Maudling is the present participle and gerund of maudle.
What part of speech is maudling?
Maudling is a proper noun.

Words near maudling in the dictionary

  1. Maudlands
  2. maudle
  3. maudled
  4. maudles
  5. maudlin
  6. maudling
  7. Maudlings
  8. maudlinism
  9. maudlinisms
  10. maudlinize
  11. maudlinized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maudling (page history and authors); Maudling (page history and authors); maudle (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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