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Farthing vs Farting - What's the difference?

farthing | farting |

As nouns the difference between farthing and farting

is that farthing is former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny while farting is the act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.

As a verb farting is

present participle of lang=en.

farthing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny.
  • *1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
  • *:"Nay, Heaven forbid, indeed," quoth Robin, "that I should take from such as thee, jolly fellow! Not so much as one farthing would I take from thee, for I love a fair Saxon face like thine right well—more especially when it cometh from Locksley Town, and most especially when the man that owneth it is to marry a bonny lass on Thursday next. But come, tell me for what price thou wilt sell me all of thy meat and thy horse and cart."
  • *1895 , Parliament of Western Australia, Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly VIII, page 163:
  • *:We must keep them to the fact that the duty is one and three quarter farthings , or nearly a half-penny in the pound and no more, and any one who tries to work it out any other way is not acting fairly in the matter.
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  • *:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing , nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.

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    farting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
  • * 1989 , William H. MacLeish, The Gulf Stream
    • Noise grew everywhere — radios, monstrous tape decks, the fartings of untuned engines.
  • * 2007 , Roger Angell, Let Me Finish (page 44)
    • Observing the pantings and fartings of our old Boston terrier Tunney one day, he proposed that the federal government should fund a plan like the Passamaquoddy Bay project that would put all this energy to some use.

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