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foxhole | ing |

As a noun foxhole

is the burrow in the ground where a fox lives.

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.

foxhole

English

(wikipedia foxhole)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.
  • (military) A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
  • * 1962 : Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880–1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry (Columbia University Press), page 378:
    • The statement made during the Second World War that “there are no atheists in foxholes'” is absurd. ' Foxholes teem with atheists—who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.

    Synonyms

    * dugout * fighting hole * spider hole

    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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