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onding

onding noun: breathing; smelling.

Noun (1)

onding (plural ondings)

  1. Breathing; smelling.

Noun (2)

onding (plural ondings)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A heavy, continuous fall of rain or snow; a downpour.
    • ... they inform the rest, with inward sorrow, that it is still "a terrible onding." So the circle is once more formed. Some one now proposes a game o' cairts, and the pack is produced.1891, Alexander Gordon, The Folks O' Carglen: Or, Life in the North, page 142

Forms of onding

pluralondings

Origin of onding

From Middle English ondyng, equivalent to onde (“to breathe, breathe on”) + -ing.

From on- + ding (“to beat, strike”).

Questions about onding

What does onding mean?
Onding means breathing; smelling.
What part of speech is onding?
Onding is a noun.
What is the plural of onding?
The plural of onding is ondings.

Words near onding in the dictionary

  1. ondes
  2. ondes martenot
  3. ondine
  4. Ondine's curse
  5. ondines
  6. onding
  7. ondings
  8. ondiola
  9. ondiolas
  10. ondioline
  11. ondiolines

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