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Badling vs Bailing - What's the difference?

badling | bailing |

As nouns the difference between badling and bailing

is that badling is an effeminate or womanish man or badling can be a brood, group, or flock of ducks while bailing is the act by which something is bailed.

As a verb bailing is

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badling

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An effeminate or womanish man.
  • *2001 , Peter Novobatzky, Ammon Shea, Insulting English :
    • "After the storm, all the women and children bailed desperately to keep the lifeboat from sinking. Not Lucas the badling , though. He just hopped up and down in the stern, flapping his arms in the air and exclaiming, 'Oh my, oh, my!'"
  • One who is bad; a worthless person.
  • *2011 , R.T. Raichev, Murder at the Villa Byzantine :
    • The presence of the badling – poor little Clemmie – was causing particular tension.

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from an alteration of (paddling).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brood, group, or flock of ducks.

    • bailing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is bailed.
  • * Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages
    • He took a bucket and bailed the muddy stuff out right to the bottom, and let it fill up to be again bailed out. After three bailings the water came in cold, sweet, and pure as crystal.