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whole boiling

whole boiling noun: the whole lot; all, or everybody.

Noun

the whole boiling

  1. (archaic) The whole lot; all, or everybody.
    • "And Toughey—him as you call Jo—was mixed up in the same business, and no other; and the law-writer that you know of was mixed up in the same business, and no other; and your husband, with no more knowledge of it than your great grandfather, was mixed up (by Mr. Tulkinghorn, deceased, his best...1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
    • Well, I gave a better account of myself than Paddy here, for I made most of them keep their distance from me; but him they got on the turf before you could say Watch me eye, and the whole boiling of them was on top of him in the twinkling of the same.1903, Robert Barr, Stephen Crane, The O'Ruddy

Origin of whole boiling

Suggesting a large load of laundry to be boiled clean.

Questions about whole boiling

What does whole boiling mean?
Whole boiling means the whole lot; all, or everybody.
What part of speech is whole boiling?
Whole boiling is a noun.

Words near whole boiling in the dictionary

  1. whoising
  2. whole
  3. whole bag of tricks
  4. whole ball of wax
  5. whole blood
  6. whole boiling
  7. whole box of tricks
  8. whole chebang
  9. whole child
  10. whole children
  11. whole cloth

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