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melling

melling is the present participle and gerund of mell.

Meaning of mell

Verb (1)

mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell.

Verb (2)

mell (third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
    • For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell.c. 1495, John Skelton, Vppon a deedman's hed

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Proper noun capitalized: Melling

Melling (countable and uncountable, plural Mellings)

  1. A surname.
  2. A village in Melling-with-Wrayton parish, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6071).
  3. A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD3900).
  4. A suburb across the Hutt River from Lower Hutt, Wellington region, New Zealand, named after a William Melling.

Forms of melling

pluralMellings

Questions about melling

What does melling mean?
Melling means a surname.
What is melling the present participle and gerund of?
Melling is the present participle and gerund of mell.
What part of speech is melling?
Melling is a proper noun.

Words near melling in the dictionary

  1. Mellin
  2. Mellin transform
  3. Mellin transforms
  4. Mellin-Barnes integral
  5. Mellin-Barnes integrals
  6. melling
  7. Melling-with-Wrayton
  8. Mellinger
  9. Mellingers
  10. Mellings
  11. melliphagoid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: melling (page history and authors); Melling (page history and authors); mell (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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