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dementor | ing |

As a noun dementor

is evil and fearsome creature.

As a proper noun ing is

shortened from inga, rare by itself but a popular first part of twentieth century hyphenated names like ing-britt and ing-marie.

dementor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Evil and fearsome creature.
  • * 1850 , A pilgrimage to the land of my fathers , p. 423
    • … and by which a certain Rabbi, who was once annoyed by a demon that came to him in the shape of a woman, got rid of his dementor .
  • * 2008 , The Godmother , Carrie Adams, p. 242:
    • … it was protection against the anorexic dementor standing in front of me.
  • * 2009 , Dark Immortal , J.K. Coi, p. 172
    • Diana needed to reconcile the Alric of now who pressed warm kisses to her temple, who touched her with such gentleness and showed her that he would protect her with his life, with the rage-filled dementor of her nightmares, the Alric she feared was still under the surface.

    Anagrams

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    ing

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A water meadow

    • References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989

    Etymology 2

    : From Pitman em'' and ''en , which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. The change in vowel probably reflects the familiar suffix -ing.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The name of the letter for the ng sound in Pitman shorthand.
    • Related terms
    * eng, the name of the IPA letter for this sound

    Anagrams

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