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twilling

English

Etymology

twill +? -ing

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?tw?l??/

Noun

twilling (countable and uncountable, plural twillings)

  1. Twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 563:
      It seemed to Yashmeen that the secret of the Snazzbury frock lay in the lining, the precise, as one would say, microscopic fine-structure of the twilling, which after inspection seemed far from uniform in the way it skipped over the threads

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swilling

English

Verb

swilling

  1. present participle of swill

Noun

swilling (plural swillings)

  1. Greedy drinking.
    • 1942, Charles Graves, The Avengers (page 24)
      Amid raucous shouts and swillings of beer they informed Tommy that he had just been awarded an immediate bar to his D.F.C. []

Anagrams

  • Willings, willings

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