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Fonding vs Fondling - What's the difference?

fonding | fondling |

As verbs the difference between fonding and fondling

is that fonding is while fondling is .

As a noun fondling is

(obsolete) a foolish person or fondling can be the act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.

fonding

English

Verb

(head)

    • fondling

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A foolish person.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
  • *:Yet were her words and lookes but false and fayned, / To some hid end to make more easie way, / Or to allure such fondlings whom she trayned / Into her trap […].
  • *1847 , , Wuthering Heights , Vol. I, ch. 10:
  • *:'How can you say I am harsh, you naughty fondling?' cried the mistress, amazed at the unreasonable assertion.
  • A pet or person who is fondled; someone who is much loved.
    • See also
    * fondler

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)
    • Derived terms
    * fondlingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
  • * Mickle
    • Cyrus made no amorous fondling / To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart.

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