meddlings
meddlings is the plural of meddling.
Meaning of meddling
Noun
meddling (countable and uncountable, plural meddlings)
- unwanted interference
- It had been well, if these dishonest meddlings with existing books had stopped here.1835, William Osburn, Doctrinal Errors of the Apostolical and Early Fathers, page 30
- An instance of meddling.
- I learned more about it than most people because triffids were my job, and the firm I worked for was intimately, if not very gracefully, concerned in their public appearance. Nevertheless, their true origin still remains obscure. My own belief, for what that is worth, is that they were the outcome...1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 27
Questions about meddlings
- What is meddlings the plural of?
- Meddlings is the plural of meddling.
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