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Biding vs Fiding - What's the difference?

biding | fiding |

As verbs the difference between biding and fiding

is that biding is while fiding is .

As a noun biding

is an awaiting; expectation.

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)
  • fiding

    English

    Verb

    (head)