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Battling vs Baffling - What's the difference?

battling | baffling |

As nouns the difference between battling and baffling

is that battling is a growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening while baffling is an act of foiling or thwarting.

As adjectives the difference between battling and baffling

is that battling is nourishing; fattening while baffling is puzzling and frustrating.

As verbs the difference between battling and baffling

is that battling is present participle of lang=en while baffling is present participle of lang=en.

battling

English

Etymology 1

From .

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
  • That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Nourishing; fattening.
  • * 1873 , Sir John Scott Keltie, The works of the British dramatists :
  • Let it be me; and trust me, Margaret, The meads environ'd with the silver streams, Whose battling pastures fatten all my flocks, Yielding forth fleeces stapled with such wool As Lemnster cannot yield more finer stuff, [...]
  • Fertile.
  • Etymology 2

    From battle.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Anagrams

    *

    baffling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • puzzling and frustrating
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of foiling or thwarting.
  • * 1831 , The Quarterly Review (London)