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tundings

tundings is the plural of tunding.

Meaning of tunding

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

Questions about tundings

What is tundings the plural of?
Tundings is the plural of tunding.

Words near tundings in the dictionary

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

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