Plunking vs Plunging - What's the difference?
plunking | plunging |
An occurrence in which something or someone plunges
* {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Herman Melville, title=Moby Dick; or The Whale, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him;
* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Prince and The Pauper, Complete, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings , accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment. }}
As verbs the difference between plunking and plunging
is that plunking is while plunging is .As nouns the difference between plunking and plunging
is that plunking is a noise that plunks while plunging is an occurrence in which something or someone plunges.plunging
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