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addlings

noun

Etymology

From addle + -ing.

  1. inherited from *adalaz✻
  2. inherited from *adal✻
  3. inherited from adela
  4. inherited from adel
  5. suffixed as addlings — “addle + ing”

Definitions

  1. Earnings.

    • He din’t heve mich i t’way o addlins but it wor just enuff to get by.
    • […] addlings, wages received for work. A gentleman has informed me, that in Nottinghamshire, and throughout the north, with some variation of sound, addle and addlings are now in use.
    • ADDLINGS, wages. "Poor addlings," small pay for work. "Hard addlings," money laboriously acquired. "Saving's good addling," as the well known saying, "a penny saved is a penny gained."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for addlings. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA