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pling
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pl??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
pling (plural plings)
- (computing, dated) The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
- 1989, "John Littler, John Maher", Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing
- This illustrates the order in which bytes are poked into memory with the pling operator.
- 1994, "C.P. Brown", HAhAhA (on Internet newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.advocacy)
- IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.
- 1994, Stewart Palmer, Mark Moir, Developing CD-ROM products for Acorn machines
- Make sure that you consider ISO 9660 restrictions on the use of characters in disc, directory and file names. Only upper case alpha and numeric characters plus the underscore (_) and pling (!) can be used as legal characters.
- 1996, "Tim Wiser", Pling thing revisited (on newsgroup comp.sys.acorn.apps)
- Acorn Computing used to be big offenders when it came to referring to applications by their pling-inclusive names. They loved it. Unfortunately it made their articles sound silly (for want of a better adjective).
- 1989, "John Littler, John Maher", Computers in the laboratory: a student guide to microprocessor interfacing
Usage notes
- Associated with Acorn Computers, e.g. used in the 1980 manual for the Acorn Atom, Atomic Theory and Practice by David Johnson-Davies.
West Flemish
Noun
pling n (plural plings)
- sports field
- square
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puling
English
Etymology 1
From pule +? -ing.
Verb
puling
- present participle of pule
Etymology 2
From pule +? -ing.
Noun
puling (plural pulings)
- A whining or whimpering.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Masques and Triumphs
- Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XX:
- ‘None of that nonsense! We’re not going to hurt thee, Linton—isn’t that thy name? Thou art thy mother’s child, entirely! Where is my share in thee, puling chicken?’
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Masques and Triumphs
Synonyms
- mewling
Anagrams
- plug in, plug-in, plugin
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pu?ling
Verb
puling
- to have a foreign object enter the eye
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- what pulling a muscle feels like
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- what's pulling trig
- what's pulling guard
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