Fondling vs Foundling - What's the difference?
fondling | foundling |
(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.
The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
* Mickle
An abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.
* 1749', (Henry Fielding), '' .
* 1776 , (Adam Smith), ,
* 1794 , (Thomas Paine), (Part I) ,
As nouns the difference between fondling and foundling
is that fondling is a foolish person while foundling is an abandoned child, left by its parent(s), often a baby left at a convent or similar safe place.As a verb fondling
is present participle of lang=en.fondling
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)See also
* fondlerEtymology 2
From .Verb
(head)Derived terms
* fondlinglyNoun
(en noun)- Cyrus made no amorous fondling / To fan her pride, or melt her guardless heart.
References
*foundling
English
Noun
- In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities, the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.
- Moses was a foundling ; Jesus Christ was born in a stable; and Mahomet was a mule driver.