different between gaping vs dumdum

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?p??/
• Rhymes: -e?p??

Etymology 1

From Middle English gaping, gapynge, variants of Middle English gapand, gapande, equivalent to gape +? -ing.

Verb

gaping

1. present participle of gape

Adjective

gaping (comparative more gaping, superlative most gaping)

1. Wide open.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English gapynge, equivalent to gape +? -ing.

Noun

gaping (plural gapings)

1. The act of one who gapes.
   • 1820, John Cooke, A Treatise on Nervous Diseases: Vol. I on Apoplexy

     M. Le Gallois considers these gapings, which continue for some time after decapitation, as the vain efforts of the head for respiration.

2. Something gaping; something agape.

Translations

Anagrams

• paging

English

Etymology 1

From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindi ?? ?? (dam dam) (Bengali ???? (dômdôm)), from Hindi ????? (damadm?, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”).

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Alternative forms

• dum-dum

Noun

dumdum (plural dumdums)

1. A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the adjective dumb.

Noun

dumdum (plural dumdums)

1. (informal) An ignorant person; an idiot.

Translations

Hiligaynon

Verb

dumdum

1. recollect, remember, think

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dum?dum]

Noun

dumdum

1. moss

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29