different between swineling vs swindling

English

From swine +? -ling.

swineling (plural swinelings)

A small, young, or immature swine; pigling.
- 1848, Charles Whitehead, Smiles and tears, or The romance of life - Volume 1 - Page 83:
  He did so, filling his pipe and paying for a second tankard, which now came in, gazing amiably the while upon the interesting swineling, behind which, on the bench by my side, he presently conveyed himself.
- 1980, Randy Kidd, http://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-farming/how-to-breed-pigs-zmaz80jazraw.aspx?page=3#axzz2KdORSpS4:
  Most pig raisers will want to remove the tips of their piglets' eight needle teeth on the same day the "swinelings" receive the iron supplements.

swindling

swindling (plural swindlings)

The act by which somebody is swindled.
- 1850, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 68, page 226)
  […] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there […]

Send