PINDLING

Meaning of PINDLING in English

[pin.dling] adj [perh. alter. of spindling] (1861) dial: puny, frail

Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012

PINDLING — ˈpind( ə )lə̇n, -liŋ, ˈpin( ə )lə̇n adjective Etymology: perhaps alteration of spindling 1. dialect : puny , delicate , …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PINDLING — /pind"ling/ , n. Lynden Oscar , born 1930, Bahamian political leader: prime minister 1967-92.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PINDLING — /pind"ling/ , adj. Older Use. puny; sickly; frail; weak. [ 1860-65, Amer.; PINE 2 + -LING 1 , on the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PINDLING — Synonyms and related words : cramped, dinky, exiguous, fretful, half-pint, huffy, knee-high, limited, little, one-horse, peevish, petite, pettish, petulant, piddling, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PINDLING — Function: adjective Synonyms: IRRITABLE , fretful, huffy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickish, prickly, querulous, raspish
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PINDLING — adjective Synonyms: irritable , fretful, huffy, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickish, prickly, querulous, raspish
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INGRAHAM, HUBERT — born Aug. 4, 1947, Pine Ridge, Grand Bahama Island, The Bahamas in full, Hubert Alexander Ingraham Bahamian political leader who …
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SMALL — Synonyms and related words : Lenten, Lilliputian, Spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious, airy, arrant, ascetic, atrocious, attenuate, attenuated, austere, authoritarian, baby, …
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SLIGHT — Synonyms and related words : Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, adulterated, affront, airy, ankle-deep, ascetic, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, austere, bantam, be blind …
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SHORT
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PUNY — Synonyms and related words : Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, attenuated, austere, breakable, brittle, cadaverous, cheap-jack, cobwebby, corpselike, cramped, crumbly, dainty, …
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POKY — Synonyms and related words : abject, abominable, ambling, arid, arrant, atrocious, banausic, barren, base, beat-up, bedraggled, beggarly, blah, blank, bloodless, …
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PINT SIZED — Synonyms and related words : cramped, dinky, exiguous, half-pint, knee-high, limited, little, one-horse, petite, piddling, pindling, poky, puny, short, slight, …
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PIDDLING — Synonyms and related words : Mickey Mouse, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, cramped, dinky, exiguous, half-pint, infrequent, jerkwater, knee-high, limited, little, meager, …
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PETITE — Synonyms and related words : bantam, cramped, dainty, delicate, diminutive, dinky, dwarf, exiguous, half-pint, knee-high, lilliputian, limited, little, miniature, monkey, …
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ONE HORSE — Synonyms and related words : cramped, dinky, exiguous, half-pint, jerkwater, knee-high, limited, little, measly, niggling, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, …
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LITTLE — Synonyms and related words : Lilliputian, a bit, a breath, a little, abject, abominable, ace, arrant, atom, atrocious, authoritarian, baby, …
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LIMITED — Synonyms and related words : Amtrak, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, ascetic, austere, authoritative, baggage train, borne, bound, …
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KNEE HIGH — Synonyms and related words : couchant, cramped, crouched, debased, depressed, dinky, exiguous, flat, half-pint, knocked flat, laid low, limited, little, …
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IRRITABLE — Synonyms and related words : aggressive, agitable, all nerves, allergic, anaphylactic, apprehensive, bad-tempered, bearish, bellicose, belligerent, bickering, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, …
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HALF PINT — Synonyms and related words : cramped, dinky, exiguous, knee-high, limited, little, one-horse, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, puny, short, slight, …
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EXIGUOUS — Synonyms and related words : Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, cramped, dinky, dwarfed, dwarfish, frugal, half-pint, impoverished, …
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DINKY — Synonyms and related words : anal, back-burner, cramped, dispensable, exiguous, half-pint, immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelevant, knee-high, …
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CRAMPED — Synonyms and related words : Latinate, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, authoritarian, awkward, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged, bigot, bigoted, blockaded, bombastic, …
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MUSCULAR — adj. Function: adjective 1 marked by good well-developed musculature FF1C; his arms were lean but muscular FF1E; Synonyms: fibrous, ropy, …
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IRRITABLE — adj. Function: adjective easily exasperated FF1C; the miserable weather made us all irritable FF1E; Synonyms: disagreeable, fractious, fretful, huffy, peevish, …
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MUSCULAR — adjective 1. marked by good well-developed musculature his arms were lean but muscular Synonyms: fibrous, ropy, sinewy, stringy, wiry Related …
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IRRITABLE — adjective easily exasperated the miserable weather made us all irritable Synonyms: disagreeable, fractious, fretful, huffy, peevish, pettish, petulant, ||pindling, prickish, …
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