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Swineling vs Swindling - What's the difference?

swineling | swindling |

As nouns the difference between swineling and swindling

is that swineling is a small, young, or immature swine; pigling while swindling is the act by which somebody is swindled.

As a verb swindling is

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swineling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, young, or immature swine; pigling.
  • *1848 , Charles Whitehead, Smiles and tears, or The romance of life - Volume 1 - Page 83 :
  • He did so, filling his pipe and paying for a second tankard, which now came in, gazing amiably the while upon the interesting swineling , behind which, on the bench by my side, he presently conveyed himself.
  • *1980 , Randy Kidd, http://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-farming/how-to-breed-pigs-zmaz80jazraw.aspx?page=3#axzz2KdORSpS4:
  • Most pig raisers will want to remove the tips of their piglets' eight needle teeth on the same day the "swinelings " receive the iron supplements.

    swindling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is swindled.
  • * 1850 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 68, page 226)