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tunding

tunding noun: a caning.

Noun

tunding (plural tundings)

  1. (UK, archaic, school slang) A caning.
    • When all were thus assembled, and before the singers commenced, the culprit who had been sentenced to a tunding stepped out, pulled off his gown, and received from the hands of one deputed by the "prefect of hall," and armed with a tough, pliant ground-ash stick, a severe beating. I never had a...1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, “At Winchester”, in What I Remember […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley and Son […], →OCLC, page 112

Forms of tunding

pluraltundings

Origin of tunding

Latin tundo (“to beat, strike”), + -ing.

Questions about tunding

What does tunding mean?
Tunding means a caning.
What part of speech is tunding?
Tunding is a noun.
What is the plural of tunding?
The plural of tunding is tundings.

Words near tunding in the dictionary

  1. Tunbridges
  2. Tunceli
  3. Tuncester
  4. Tunchang
  5. Tuncurry
  6. tunding
  7. tundings
  8. tundish
  9. tundishes
  10. tundora
  11. tundoras

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