Carping

Definitions: Carping

Carping

Adjective

1. Quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics".

Noun

1. Persistent petty and unjustified criticism.

Date "carping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references)

Synonyms: Carping

Synonyms: caviling (adj), nitpicking (adj), pettifogging (adj), quibbling (adj), faultfinding (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disapprobation	Satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon; censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical; fastidious; sparing of praise, grudging praise.
	Satire; sneer; (contempt); taunt; (disrespect); cavil, carping, censoriousness; hypercriticism; (fastidiousness).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Carping

English words defined with "carping": bait ♦ captiously, caviling ♦ Hypercritic ♦ nitpicking ♦ pettifogging ♦ quibbling ♦ rag, rally, razz, ride ♦ tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit ♦ Zoilism. (references)

"Carping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Carping" is used about 16 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
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	75%	12	101,599
Adjective (general or positive)	18.75%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	6.25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

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Language		Translations for "carping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kritizer (critic, dutch uncle, faultfinder, faultfinding), keqdashës (ill disposed, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, spiteful), gërnjar (bitchy, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, fussy, grouch, grouchy, grouse, grouser, grumbler, nag, nagger, nagging, peevish, pettish, petulant, quarrelsome, shrewish, termagant, wrangler). (various references)

Arabic		‏عائب. (various references)

Bulgarian		заядлив (argumentative, bellicose, captious, combative, contradictious, contradictory, currish, doggish, mordant, nagging, peevish, provoking, spleenful, troublesome, vixenish), придирчив (captious, choosey, dainty, delicate, exacting, exceptive, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, nice, particular, pernickety, queasy, squeamish). (various references)

Czech		hyperkritický (hypercritical, ultracritical). (various references)

French		chicanier (captious). (various references)

German		nörgelig (grumbly, moaning), nörgelei (grouse, grumbling, moaning, nagging), mäkelei (fault finding), genörgel (grumbling, moaning). (various references)

Greek		κακόβουλοσ (malevolent, malign, malinger), γκρινιάρικοσ, μορφή (clause form, conjunctive normal form, figure, form, format, look, morph, obloquy, rap, shape), επικριτικόσ (censorious, critical, damnatory). (various references)

Hebrew		בקרתי (critical, deprecatory, pedantic, unfavorable), � קר� ות (censoriousness, picking). (various references)

Hungarian		kötekedõ (cantankerous, quizzical, teaser). (various references)

Indonesian		kebawelan, bawel (tedious). (various references)

Italian		meticoloso (captious, correct, fastidious, finickly, fussy, meticulous, nagging, particular, pedantic, punctilious, scrupulous). (various references)

Manx		khennoughey (carp, cavil), khennoughagh (cavilling), khennough. (various references)

Pig Latin		arpingcay

Portuguese		capcioso (captious, catchy, specious), maligno (baleful, ill disposed, impish, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, malignant, pernicious, poisonous, virulent), insidioso (captious, guileful, insidious). (various references)

Romanian		cârcotaş (caviller, fault finding, grumbling, grumpy, quarrelsome, querulous). (various references)

Russian		придирчивый (cantankerous, captious, contentious, exceptive, hypercritical, overcritcal, pernickety, persnickety, quarrelsome, snappish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		cepidlački (hairsplitting, priggish), zakerajući. (various references)

Spanish		criticón (captious, carper, critic, faultfinder, faultfinding, nagger, nagging). (various references)

Swedish		gnat (cavilling, gripe, nagging). (various references)

Ukranian		уїдливий (acid, acrid, acrimonious, arrowy, barbed, biting, cattish, caustic, epigrammatic, exceptive, fault finding, mordacious, mordant, pointed, smart, spiteful, waspish, waspy), недоброзичливий (blackhearted, cattish, cursed, envious, evil-minded, ill-affected, malevolent, nasty), злий (bad, bad tempered, bitter, blackhearted, evil, ill, ill natured, puckish, snappish, snotty, vicious, wicked), причепливий (cantankerous, captious, catching, catchy, censorious, fault finding, fuddy-duddy, hypercritical, notional, pernickety, persnickety, snappish, snorty). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Cirrhinus molitorella, Cyprinidae, Cypriniformes, Cyprinus carpio. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carping": carpingly, carpings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "carping": escarping, scarping. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arpin, capin, caping, caprian, careing, carning, Carpano, carpen, Carpene, carpent, carpin, Carying, corping, crappant, larping, parping. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carping" (pronounced kÄ"rping)
5	-Ä" r p i ng	harping.
4	-r p i ng	warping.
3	-p i ng	antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: craping.
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-p-r"
	-1 letter: arcing, caring, pacing, paring, racing, raping.
	-2 letters: acing, aping, cairn, carpi, cigar, garni, grain, naric, panic, prang.
	-3 letters: agin, airn, cain, carn, carp, crag, crap, gain, girn, gnar, gran, grin, grip, narc, nipa, pain, pair, pang, pian, pica, pina, ping, pirn, prig, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring.
	-4 letters: ain, air, ani, arc, can, cap.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-p-r"
	+1 letter: capering, carpings, cramping, crapping, parching, prancing, scarping, scraping.
	+2 letters: capturing, carpeting, carpingly, comparing, escarping, panegyric, parceling, preaching, preacting, prefacing, recapping, repacking, replacing, respacing, scarphing, scrapings, scrapping.
	+3 letters: calipering, campaigner, caprioling, carpetings, carpogonia, carpooling, chaptering, comparting, panegyrics, parcelling, placarding, practicing, practising, precasting, prepacking, preplacing, purchasing, reclasping, repatching, saprogenic, scampering, scarpering, upreaching.
	+4 letters: approaching, becarpeting, callipering, campaigners, carpogonial, carpogonium, chaperoning, coappearing, cooperating, copyreading, crepitating, deprecating, granophyric, graphicness, iconography, imprecating, monographic, nomographic, outcapering, panegyrical, parachuting, paragenetic, parbuckling, percolating, phonogramic, picarooning, pockmarking, praelecting, preachingly, precleaning, preclearing, precreasing, predicating, preenacting, pregnancies, proclaiming, procreating, protracting, reaccepting, recapturing, recarpeting, renographic, repacifying, repackaging, replicating, reproaching, ropedancing, uppercasing.
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