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golding en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɡəʊldɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation, UK)
  • gōlʹdĭng
  • /ˈɡoʊldɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

First attested circa 1580; formed as gold + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) A gold coin.
  2. (obsolete) A kind of apple; a goldling.
  3. (Midlands, North, UK, dialectal) The corn marigold (Glebionis segetum).
  4. (in the Kent dialect) The ladybird (family Coccinellidae).

Forms

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goldinges Number=Plur obsolete lexicographic
goldings Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

goldie · gilt · gilding

golding en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɡəʊldɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation, UK)
  • gōlʹdĭng
  • /ˈɡoʊldɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

First attested in 1798; from the surname (Golding) of the man who developed the sub-variety (in 1790).

Meanings

  1. A kind of red hop, a sub-variety of the Canterbury hop.

Forms

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goldings Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

golding vine (hop) · golding hop (hop)

golding en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɡəʊldɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation, UK)
  • gōlʹdĭng
  • /ˈɡoʊldɪŋ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From gold (“pyrolyse food to a golden brown”) + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of gold
    form of gold