Houndling vs Boundling - What's the difference?
houndling | boundling |
A small or young hound.
*1840 , The Gentleman's magazine - Volume 169 - Page 406:
One who is bound.
*1909 , Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, Set in silver :
*1991 , Douglas Oliver, Three variations on the theme of harm :
*1993 , Rodney Cole, So you want to take physics :
*2002 , Karl Finatzer, Bushpilots tales :
As nouns the difference between houndling and boundling
is that houndling is a small or young hound while boundling is one who is bound.houndling
English
Noun
(en noun)- Kidlings thus, and the goats I beheld, and the hound and the houndling , Alike in the make: wonder were not the greater and small I compar'd, Vainly, for Rome, magnificent Rome!
boundling
English
Noun
(en noun)- And we were starting to hook ourselves on to the tail end of the dwindling procession, quite on friendly terms, when to my horror that young English cadlet — or boundling , which you will — strolled calmly out in front of us, [...]
- Always, always look in the darkest thickets for the boundlings , a curious myth in which babies are rescued from their light covering of troubles if found in time.
- The astronauts in Sky Lab made some films of acrobatics in a zero-gravity environment that amazed us earth-boundlings .
- [...] sing old songs and have always had the desire to make love to middle-aged women in the backseat of old cars. But most of all, I like old airplanes. In some strange way they open up a door to the past that is closed to earth boundlings .
