onding

O1N1D2I1N1G2

noun

Breathing; smelling.

OriginMiddle English ondyng →
Scrabble 8
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

onding1

nounonding (plural ondings)

plural ondings

  1. Breathing; smelling.

onding2

nounonding (plural ondings)

plural ondings

  1. UKdialectalA heavy, continuous fall of rain or snow; a downpour.

    ... they inform the rest, with inward sorrow, that it is still "a terrible onding." So the circle is once more formed. Some one now proposes a game o' cairts, and the pack is produced.

    1891, Alexander Gordon, The Folks O' Carglen: Or, Life in the North, page 142

Origin

onding · noun

  1. Middle Englishondyng
  2. Englishonding

From Middle English ondyng, equivalent to onde (“to breathe, breathe on”) + -ing.

More words from Middle English

Full word history & related roots →

onding · noun

From on- + ding (“to beat, strike”).

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Ngindo
Cite this entry
APA

onding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onding

MLA

“onding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onding. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “onding,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/onding.

Source: onding on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.