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Baying vs Maying - What's the difference?

baying | maying |

As nouns the difference between baying and maying

is that baying is action of the verb to bay ; howling while maying is the celebrations traditionally held to celebrate may day.

As a verb baying

is .

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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    maying

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The celebrations traditionally held to celebrate May Day.
  • *:
  • *:SOo it befelle in the moneth of May / quene Gueneuer called vnto her kny?tes of the table round / and she gafe them warnynge that erly vpon the morowe she wold ryde on mayeng in to woodes & feldes besyde westmynstre / & I warne yow that there be none of yow but that he be wel horsed / and that ye alle be clothed on grene outher in sylke outher in clothe
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