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Puling vs Paling - What's the difference?

puling | paling |

As verbs the difference between puling and paling

is that puling is while paling is .

As nouns the difference between puling and paling

is that puling is a whining or whimpering while paling is a pointed stick used to make a fence.

puling

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A whining or whimpering.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Leave this faint puling and lament as I do.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings .

    Synonyms

    * mewling

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    paling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pointed stick used to make a fence.
  • A fence made of palings.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 142
  • The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground.