Word.ws English Dictionary

riddlings

riddlings is the plural of riddling.

Meaning of riddling

Noun (1)

riddling (plural riddlings)

  1. The posing or solving of a riddle.
    • Hence the laughter of ridicule, whether spontaneous or incited by words, and hence too the laughter of wit, which has an intermediate ancestry in such mental tussles or riddlings as may at one time have taken the place of more savage physical strife.2015, W. K. Wimsatt, Hateful Contraries: Studies in Literature and Criticism, page 94

Noun (2)

riddling (plural riddlings)

  1. Material removed by riddling, or sieving.
    • The good grain is riddled by hand into a heap at a convenient part of the barn, and the riddlings are thrown among the stuff which descends to the floor through the other spout.1832, The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, volume 3, page 989

See all 3 meanings of riddling

Questions about riddlings

What is riddlings the plural of?
Riddlings is the plural of riddling.

Words near riddlings in the dictionary

  1. Riddlestons
  2. Riddley
  3. Riddleys
  4. riddling
  5. riddlingly
  6. riddlings
  7. Riddoch syndrome
  8. RIDDOR
  9. ride
  10. ride a hobby
  11. ride a horse foaled by an acorn

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: riddlings (page history and authors); riddling (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “riddlings.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/riddlings. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.