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Tankling vs Rankling - What's the difference?

tankling | rankling |

As nouns the difference between tankling and rankling

is that tankling is (obsolete) a tinkling while rankling is a sensation that rankles.

As a verb rankling is

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tankling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A tinkling.
    • (Webster 1913)

    rankling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that rankles.
  • * (Walt Whitman)
    • I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, / I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid