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Flailing vs Flatling - What's the difference?

flailing | flatling |

As a verb flailing

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun flailing

is a flailing action or motion.

As an adverb flatling is

flatly, plainly.

flailing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flailing action or motion.
    • The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention.

    flatling

    English

    Alternative forms

    * flatlings

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Flatly, plainly.
  • In a flat position.
  • With the flat side (e.g. of a weapon).
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.5:
  • *:Tho with her sword on him she flatling strooke, / In signe of true subjection to her powre […].
    • English manner adverbs