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prawling

prawling is the obsolete form of praline.

Meaning of praline

Noun

praline (countable and uncountable, plural pralines)

  1. A confection made from almonds and other nuts, caramelized sugar, and sometimes milk or cream.
    • A typical praline is roundish, about three inches in diameter and a half-inch thick. The taste is faintly regressive, reminiscent of the pleasure to be found in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when one is ravenously hungry.1992 March 15, Frances Frank Marcus, “A Sweet Pleasure From New Orleans: The Praline”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of prawling

pluralprawlings

Questions about prawling

What is prawling the obsolete form of?
Prawling is the obsolete form of praline.

Words near prawling in the dictionary

  1. Pravia
  2. pravities
  3. pravity
  4. Pravomir
  5. prawlin
  6. prawling
  7. prawlings
  8. prawlins
  9. prawn
  10. prawn chip
  11. prawn chips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prawling (page history and authors); praline (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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