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Wailing vs Pailing - What's the difference?

wailing | pailing |

As nouns the difference between wailing and pailing

is that wailing is a loud drawn out scream and howl while pailing is .

As a verb wailing

is .

wailing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loud drawn out scream and howl.
  • *1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5:
  • *:'For as soon as I heard Tewkesbury tell of screams and wailings in the air, and no one to be seen,' said Elzevir, 'I guessed that some poor soul had got shut in the vault, and was there crying for his life.

    • Verb

    (head)
    • Craig ran off wailing because his friend pulled a prank on him.

    pailing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * (William Cobbett)
    • Gentlemen must have observed that many of the nurserymen's plantations were wide and extensive, some of them covering several acres; and that their pailings and fences were for the most part low, and might be so weak and out of repair