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Monking vs Nonking - What's the difference?

monking | nonking |

As nouns the difference between monking and nonking

is that monking is (uncountable) the work or life of a monk while nonking is one who, or that which, is not a king.

As an adjective monking

is monkish.

monking

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The work or life of a monk
  • (countable) monkfish

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • monkish
    • (Coleridge)

    nonking

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, is not a king.
  • * 1983 , Edwin Arthur Maxwell, Introduction to statistical thinking (page 161)
    • Similarly, for each of the other draws, the probability of a nonking is 12/13.
  • * 1993 , Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina (page 22)
    • In short, the oath was more than anything a way of uniting Creoles and Spaniards of all political stripes under one banner; no one objected to swearing allegiance to a nonking .
  • * 2006 , Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography (page 96)
    • A babatangan is a nonking whose future kingship was predicted by a priest...