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Smarting vs Smartling - What's the difference?

smarting | smartling |

As verbs the difference between smarting and smartling

is that smarting is while smartling is .

As nouns the difference between smarting and smartling

is that smarting is a sensation that smarts or stings while smartling is one who is smart, shrewd, or clever; a smart-aleck.

As an adjective smarting

is painful, sore.

smarting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Painful, sore.
    • My arm is still smarting from where the ball hit it.
  • (figuratively) Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that smarts or stings.
  • * (Thomas Halyburton)
    • Strong they are; for they trample upon our light, the penalties of laws divine and human; yea, and the smartings of our own conscience.

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    smartling

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is smart, shrewd, or clever; a smart-aleck.
  • * 1773 , The Gentleman's magazine - Volume 3 - Page 262:
    • And smartlings think it witty to blaspheme [...]
  • * 1738 , Stephen Duck, Poems on several occasions :
    • And Smartlings think it Wit to play the Fool, [...]
  • * 1902 , James Hoyt, Seen & heard by Megargee - Volume 2, Part 2 - Page 565 :
    • The serious illness of Archbishop Corrigan of the New York Catholic diocese, has led a lot of newspaper smartlings to predict, with apparent mournfulness, that he might recover but for his "advanced age."
  • * 1903 , William Rheem Lighton, The ultimate moment :
    • He determined that he would not hold up his honest admiration of his friend for the amusement of these smartlings .