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Baying vs Barking - What's the difference?

baying | barking |

As a verb baying

is .

As a noun baying

is action of the verb to bay ; howling.

As a proper noun barking is

a town in london.

baying

English

Verb

(head)
    • The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb to bay ; howling.
    • She quickly grew weary of the beast's constant baying .
  • An instance of baying; a howl.
  • * 1877 , , book XXI
    • Soon as he hears bayings , and is not alarm'd nor affrighted...
  • * 1880 , , chapter 24
  • *:...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ...
  • * 1885 , ed. by , Volume XXXVI
    • And the thrill which their ill-omened bayings send through people at large is a measure of the state of tension in which the general mind is held.
  • * 1907 , , translated by Frank Justus Miller, Hercules Furens Act III
    • Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm.

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    barking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * barking dogs seldom bite

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Who or that barks or bark.
    • barking dogs
  • (British slang) Short for barking mad.
    • He's going to run the marathon in this hot weather dressed as Donald Duck – he must be barking !

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to bark .
    • Loud barking could be heard from the dog pound.

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