Madling vs Malling - What's the difference?
madling | malling |
A mad creature; one who acts wildly or foolishly.
*1881 , Benjamin Preston, Dialect and other poems, with glossary of the local words :
*2006 , Jacqueline Carey, Godslayer: Volume II of The Sundering :
*2010 , George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Songs of the Dying Earth :
Mad; insane; crazy.
*1881 , Benjamin Preston, Dialect and other poems, with glossary of the local words :
*2006 , Jacqueline Carey, Godslayer: Volume II of The Sundering :
The transformation of a district by building shopping malls.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=May 17, author=Andrew E. Kramer, title=In Siberia, Shopping Malls Are Sprouting All Over, work=New York Times
, passage=The malling of Siberia is transforming the drab gray landscape on the outskirts of these cities into a tableau of Day-Glo green and purple outlets, and providing a slim ray of hope to retailers whose business is lagging elsewhere. }}
As nouns the difference between madling and malling
is that madling is a mad creature; one who acts wildly or foolishly while malling is the transformation of a district by building shopping malls.As an adjective madling
is mad; insane; crazy.madling
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Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- A madling' acts in opposition to common sense. He is an owd ' madling whose reason has become childish by the lapse of years.
- A madling was speaking to them; a woman. Dani stopped with a mind to retreat.
- The madling —he had appeared today in the form of Austeri-Pranz, one of Vespanus' instructors at Roë, an intimidating man with bulging, rolling eyes and a formidable overbite—gave the question his consideration.
Etymology 2
Either from attributive use of madling (see above), or for maddling, present participle of . More at (l).Adjective
(en adjective)- To be madling is to have our ideas confused.
- The madling woman snatched the tray from his hands, giving it to the Fjeltroll to inspect.
malling
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