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Goin vs Roin - What's the difference?

goin | roin |

As a verb goin

is .

As a noun roin is

.

goin

English

Verb

(head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1870, author=Various, title=Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I see they was goin , so I said:-- "My week-minded and misgided femails, hold your hosses a minnit, until an old statesman, who has served his country for 4 yeer as Gustise of the Peece, says a few remarks to you." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=George Bernard Shaw, title=The Irrational Knot, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Youre goin on fit to raise the street." " }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1994, date=April 29, author=Michael Dolan, title=Nixon in Hell, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Now I got nothing goin on but a fockin ping-pong tournament with Kurt Cobain, who fockin cheats, man, like it's gonna do him any fockin good. }}

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    roin

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) runger, ultimately of imitative origin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To growl; to roar.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
    • Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne , when salvage choler gan redound.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) ruinne, roin et al., of uncertain origin. Compare roynish.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.
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