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tireling

tireling adjective: tired; fatigued.

Adjective

tireling (comparative more tireling, superlative most tireling)

  1. (obsolete) Tired; fatigued.
    • But most the former villaine, which did lead / Her tyreling jade, was bent to her abuse […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of tireling

comparativemore tireling
superlativemost tireling

Origin of tireling

From tire + -ling.

Questions about tireling

What does tireling mean?
Tireling means tired; fatigued.
What part of speech is tireling?
Tireling is an adjective.

Words near tireling in the dictionary

  1. Tiree
  2. tireless
  3. tirelessly
  4. tirelessness
  5. tirelike
  6. tireling
  7. tiremaker
  8. tiremakers
  9. tiremaking
  10. tires
  11. tires out

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