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Plopping vs Propping - What's the difference?

plopping | propping |

As verbs the difference between plopping and propping

is that plopping is while propping is .

As nouns the difference between plopping and propping

is that plopping is the sound or action of something that plops while propping is the act by which something is propped.

plopping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound or action of something that plops.
  • * 2006 , John Gierach, Trout Bum (page 154)
    • There is, of course, no real silence in nature, only layer after layer of softer sounds: the rustlings, ploppings , and buzzings of God knows what, the sighing of the air and the water

    propping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is propped.
  • * 1904 , Kellogg Durland, Among the Fife Miners (page 62)
    • By certain arrangements in the former method the miner not only gets the coal but makes all proppings and repairs, so that the face moves much more slowly than with the other method where the hewers devote all their time to getting the coal