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Houndling vs Hounding - What's the difference?

houndling | hounding |

As nouns the difference between houndling and hounding

is that houndling is a small or young hound while hounding is pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless.

As a verb hounding is

present participle of lang=en.

houndling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small or young hound.
  • *1840 , The Gentleman's magazine - Volume 169 - Page 406:
    • 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!

    hounding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless.
  • *2011 , "Embraceable you", The Economist , 30 Jul 2011:
  • *:Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
  • (nautical) The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.
    • (Webster 1913)