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Lingering vs Linkering - What's the difference?

lingering | linkering |

As verbs the difference between lingering and linkering

is that lingering is while linkering is .

As a noun lingering

is an act of lingering or waiting.

lingering

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of lingering or waiting.
  • * 2000 , David S. Reynolds, A Historical Guide to Walt Whitman (page 73)
    • But through this insistent rhythm and rhyme, there are only questions and parenthetical pauses, interruptions and lingerings .
  • That which lingers; a remnant.
  • * (Washington Irving)
    • The lingerings of decent pride were visible in her appearance. Her dress, though humble in the extreme, was scrupulously clean.

    linkering

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    Verb

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