LAMBING

Definition: LAMBING

LAMBING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Lamb

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "LAMBING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Synonym by domain: kidding (food & agriculture).

Crosswords: LAMBING

Specialty definitions using "LAMBING": mutton puncher ♦ SHEEP HERDER. (references)

"LAMBING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 55.26% of the time. "LAMBING" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	55.26%	21	76,261
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	36.84%	14	93,893
Noun (singular)	7.89%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	38	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "LAMBING" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Lambing	Last name	130	62,581
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "LAMBING": lambing time. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "LAMBING": lambing-shed.
	Ending with "LAMBING": post-lambing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "LAMBING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏ولادة النعجة. (various references)

Bulgarian		обагняне, агнене. (various references)

Chinese		产小羊 (Lambed). (various references)

Danish		laemning (kidding). (various references)

Dutch		lammeren werpen (kidding), lammeren (kidding), lammen (kidding). (various references)

Finnish		karitsointi (kidding), karitsoiminen (kidding). (various references)

French		agnelage (lamb). (various references)

German		Lammen (kidding, lamb), Ablammen (kidding). (various references)

Greek		τοκετός (birth, childbirth, delivery, foaling, kidding, parturition, partus). (various references)

Hungarian		bárányellés. (various references)

Italian		pecore (kidding), agnellatura (kidding). (various references)

Korean		새끼를 낳음. (various references)

Pig Latin		ambinglay.(various references)

Russian		ягнение, окот. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		jagnjenje. (various references)

Spanish		parto de las ovejas, paricion (birth, foaling, kidding, parturition). (various references)

Swedish		lamning (kidding). (various references)

Turkish		kuzulama. (various references)

Ukranian		окіт. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"LAMBING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clambing, labin, Lambin, Liebing, Lombank. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "LAMBING" (pronounced la"ming)
5	l a" m i ng	slamming.
4	-a" m i ng	cramming, damming, damning, jamming, ramming.
3	-m i ng	acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, redeeming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ambling, blaming.
	Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-l-m-n"
	-1 letter: baling, gimbal, laming, lingam, malign.
	-2 letters: algin, align, binal, blain, gamin, liang, ligan, liman, limba, linga.
	-3 letters: agin, amin, anil, bail, balm, bang, bani, bima, blam, blin, gain, gamb, glia, glib, glim, iamb, lain, lamb, lang, lima, limb, limn, ling, magi, mail, main, mina, nail.
	-4 letters: ail, aim, ain, alb, ami, ani, bag, bal, bam, ban, big, bin, gab, gal, gam, gan, gib, gin, lab, lag, lam, lib, lin, mag, man, mib, mig, mil, nab, nag, nam, nib, nil, nim.
	-5 letters: ab, ag, ai, al, am, an, ba, bi, in, la, li, ma, mi, na.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-l-m-n"
	+1 letter: gambling, marbling, rambling, wambling.
	+2 letters: balsaming, becalming, bigeminal, brambling, embalming, emblazing, flambeing, gamboling, gimbaling, imbalming, imblazing, marblings, ramblings, shambling.
	+3 letters: ambulating, assembling, clambering, embattling, gambolling, gimballing, imaginable, imaginably, impugnable, lambasting, ramblingly, scrambling.
	+4 letters: amblygonite, bamboozling, beclamoring, beglamoring, blaspheming, emblazoning, embracingly, embrangling, impregnable, impregnably, mailbombing, marbleising, marbleizing, mislabeling, mislaboring, mothballing, sublimating, submarginal, subsampling, umbrellaing.
	+5 letters: amblygonites, antigambling, automobiling, beglamouring, bilingualism, blackmailing, descrambling, magnetizable, metabolizing, misbalancing, mislabelling, reassembling, unimaginable, unimaginably, unscrambling.
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