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Punding vs Ounding - What's the difference?

punding | ounding |

As nouns the difference between punding and ounding

is that punding is a human activity characterized by compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects while ounding is (obsolete) waving.

punding

English

Noun

(-)
  • A human activity characterized by compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects.
    • Punding may consist of activities such as collecting pebbles and lining them up as perfectly as possible, or disassembling doorknobs and putting them back together again.

    See also

    * stimming * tweaking

    ounding

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) waving
    • Ounding , paling, winding, or bending of cloth. — Chaucer.
    (Webster 1913)