Pigging vs Pinging - What's the difference?
pigging | pinging |
Damned (used as a mild intensive ).
The action of the verb to pig .
The sound of a ping.
* 1870 , Sir John William Kaye, A History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 (volume 2, page 320)
* 2011 , Ramona DeFelice Long, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (page 202)
The act of sending a ping, as by a submarine or over a computer network.
As nouns the difference between pigging and pinging
is that pigging is the action of the verb to pig while pinging is the sound of a ping.As verbs the difference between pigging and pinging
is that pigging is while pinging is .As an adjective pigging
is damned (used as a mild intensive ).pigging
English
Adjective
(head)- I can't get this pigging computer to work.
Synonyms
* blasted, blooming, confounded, damnedNoun
(-)Verb
(head)pinging
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- walking across the open in stern composure, with the pingings of the hostile bullets, and the imploring cries of his comrades to save himself, sounding in his ears.
- When she entered, her eyes and ears were assaulted by neon lights in bright colors, the hypnotic, musical pingings of electronic slot and poker machines, and the clinking of coins dropping into payout trays.