poring
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]poring
- present participle and gerund of pore
Noun
[edit]poring (plural porings)
- The act of one who pores.
- 1833, Oliver Moore, The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune:
- During my porings over a volume of the former for 1794, I fell upon a paragraph which caused such a sudden perturbation in my whole appearance, as to excite the curiosity of the surgeon […]
Anagrams
[edit]Central Dusun
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare Javanese pring (“bamboo”).
Noun
[edit]poring