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Biding vs Boding - What's the difference?

biding | boding |

As nouns the difference between biding and boding

is that biding is an awaiting; expectation while boding is an omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent.

As verbs the difference between biding and boding

is that biding is while boding is .

As an adjective boding is

portending, ominous.

biding

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) biding, bydyng, equivalent to .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An awaiting; expectation.
  • *2007 , Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand :
    • I was biding time. And my biding was making me bitter.
  • (archaic) Residence; habitation
  • * Hakluyt
    • They brought us to their bidings about two miles from the harbour.
  • *1776 , Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore :
    • At Antwerp has my constant biding been, [...]

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)

    • boding

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent.
  • * Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    • The boding of the tree toad.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • portending, ominous

    • Verb

    (head)