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Bored vs Boing - What's the difference?

bored | boing |

As verbs the difference between bored and boing

is that bored is past tense of bore while boing is to make a boing sound or bouncing motion.

As an adjective bored

is suffering from boredom.

As a noun boing is

the sound made by a elastic object (such as a spring) when bouncing; the sound of a bounce.

bored

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bore)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • suffering from boredom
  • uninterested, without attention
    • The piano teacher's bored look betrayed he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's boringly stereotype rendition of the brilliantly composed etudes
  • perforated by a hole or holes (through bioerosion or other)

    • Related terms

    * bore * boredom * boring

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    boing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound made by a elastic object (such as a spring) when bouncing; the sound of a bounce.

    • Derived terms

    * boingy *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a sound or bouncing motion.
  • * {{quote-news, year=1988, date=October 7, author=Peter Friederici, title=Auction, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=At its most extreme it is reminiscent of the boinging and buzzing of a Jew's harp. }}

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    * * English onomatopoeias