different between toweling vs towel

English

Alternative forms

• towelling

Noun

toweling (usually uncountable, plural towelings)

1. Alternative form of towelling

Verb

toweling

1. present participle of towel

English

Etymology

From Middle English towayle, towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel”) (modern French touaille), from Frankish *þwahilu (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahan? (“to wash”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel”) (modern dialectal German Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel”), dweil (“mop”), Low German Dweel (“towel”), Old English þw?le (“band; ribbon; fillet”), Old English þw?an (“to wash”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: toul, tou??l
• IPA^(key): /ta?l/, /?ta?.?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l, -a??l

Noun

towel (plural towels)

1. A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.

Hyponyms

• lavabo
• see also Derived terms below

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (taoru)

Translations

Verb

towel (third-person singular simple present towels, present participle toweling or towelling, simple past and past participle toweled or towelled)

1. (transitive) To hit with a towel.
2. (transitive) To dry by using a towel.

   He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.

3. (transitive) To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
4. (Britain, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".

Derived terms

• towel off
• towel up
• untoweled, untowelled

Anagrams

• Towle, owlet

Middle English

Noun

towel

1. Alternative form of towayle