different between golding vs gelding

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK) enPR: g?l?d?ng, IPA^(key): /????ld??/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

golding (plural goldings or (obsolete) goldinges)

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

References

• “†?Go·lding” listed on page 282 of volume IV (F and G), § ii (G) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1901]
  ??†?Go·lding.?Obs.?[f. Gold¹ + -ing³.?[¶]?The form still occurs in north midland dialects as a name of the marigold, in Kent of the ladybird.]?[¶]?1.?A gold coin.?[¶]?c?1580 Jefferie Bugbears i. i. 77 in Archiv Stud. d. neu. Spr. (1897) XCVIII. 306 His goldinges that he kepes in prison.?[¶]?2.?A kind of apple.?(See Goldling.)?[¶]?1589 Rider Eng.–Lat. Dict. s.v. Apple, Summer Goldings..Winter Goldings.?1648–60 Hexham Dutch Dict., Guldelingh, A Golding, an apple so called.
• “†?golding¹” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Etymology 2

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

Noun

golding (plural goldings)

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

Synonyms

• (hop): golding hop, golding vine

References

• “?golding²” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Etymology 3

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

Verb

golding

1. present participle of gold

Anagrams

• dogling, godling, lodging

English

Etymology

From Middle English geldyng, geldynge, from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”), equivalent to geld (“to castrate”) +? -ing (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ld??/
• Rhymes: -?ld??

Noun

gelding (plural geldings)

1. A castrated male horse.
2. Any castrated male animal.
3. (archaic) A eunuch.
   • 1382–1395, John Wycliffe et al. (translators), Acts viii. 38

     They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.

Translations

Verb

gelding

1. present participle of geld

Anagrams

• Gedling, gingled, ledging, niggled

Icelandic

Etymology

From gelda (“to geld, to castrate”) +? -ing (“-ing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?c?lti?k/
• Rhymes: -?lti?k

Noun

gelding f (genitive singular geldingar, nominative plural geldingar)

1. castration, gelding

Declension

Related terms

• gelda (“to geld, to castrate”)
• geldingur (“gelding, wether”)