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Braying vs Baying - What's the difference?

braying | baying |

As verbs the difference between braying and baying

is that braying is present participle of bray while baying is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between braying and baying

is that braying is an act or sound of braying while baying is action of the verb to bay; howling.

braying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or sound of braying.

    • 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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