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Definition: Moaning |
MoaningAdjective1. Making low inarticulate sound as e.g. of pain or sorrow; "the groaning wounded"; "moaning sounds in her sleep". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "moaning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1682. (references) |
Synonym: MoaningSynonym: groaning (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Moaning |
| English words defined with "moaning": Dirgeful ♦ Moanful ♦ Swimbel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "moaning": GRAVE ♦ -grave ♦ meerschaum. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Relax! I heard moaning; I was worried (A Fish Called Wanda; writing credit: John Cleese; Charles Crichton) You fake a stomach cramp, and when you're bent over, moaning and wailing, you lick your palms (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes) Listen, why don't you stop moaning and moping and just marry the girl (Robin Hood; writing credit: Ken Anderson; Larry Clemmons) Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suction, and gag reflex, and all the while bobbing up and down, moaning and trying to breathe through our noses (Sex and the City; writing credit: Mark Leiren-Young) Kept kicking your legs and moaning. (Nightwatch; writing credit: Ole Bornedal) | |
Lyrics | And let there be no moaning of the bar. (We Will All Go Together When We Go; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
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 | Lion moaning. | | Woman moaning with sexual pleasure. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Three Voices | Carroll, Lewis | He a bewildered answer gave, Drowned in the sullen moaning wave, Lost in the echoes of the cave |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. Beside a lonely grave I stood -- With brambles 'twas encumbered; The winds were moaning in the wood, Unheard by him who slumbered, A rustic standing near, I said: "He cannot hear it blowing!" "'Course not," said he: "the feller's dead -- He can't hear nowt [sic] that's going." "Too true," I said; "alas, too true -- No sound his sense can quicken!" "Well, mister, wot is that to you? -- The deadster ain't a-kickin'." I knelt and prayed: "O Father, smile On him, and mercy show him!" That countryman looked on the while, And said: "Ye didn't know him." Pobeter Dunko |
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| "Moaning" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.18% of the time. "Moaning" is used about 273 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) | 87.18% | 238 | 19,410 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.96% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.66% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.2% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 273 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "moaning": be-moaning. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "moaning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 呻吟 (groan, Groaned, groaning, Moaned). (various references) | |
French | rouspétance, lamentation, geignement, gémissant, bêlant. (various references) | |
German | stöhnend (groaning). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "א קות (groaning), "א חות (sighing), "מ" (groaning, growling, rattle, roaring, shrieking), "ימ" (cooing, growling, roar, snarl). (various references) | |
Indonesian | teraduh-aduh (repeatedly moaning), erang (groaning, moaning from pain). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | うめき声 (groan, moan), 呻吟 (groaning), 呻き声 (groan, moan). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し"ぎ" (groaning), うめき"え (groan, moan). (various references) | |
Korean | 음 (groan, groaning). (various references) | |
Manx | soutaghey (flutter, leap, moan, sob), soghal (groan, groaning, moan, sigh, sob, sobbing, sough, surge, whimper), goocannys (plaint), gaccan (complaining, grousing, grumbling), cauaighey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oaningmay.(various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | oplakivanje (mourning), jadikovanje (lament, lamentation, plaint, wail, wailing, weeping). (various references) | |
Swedish | stönande (groan, groaning, moan). (various references) | |
Turkish | sızlanan (complaining, plaintive, querulous, whining), inleme (groan, groaning, howling, lament, wailing, whimper), inilti (groan, groaning, moan, wailing). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | isi. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "moaning": bemoaning. (additional references) | |
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"Moaning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ioaninna, maoning, moaking, moanings, moating, moinian, monging, monig, moning, monning, Mopani, Morandini, Mounan, mowning, Moyani, nuancing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "moaning" (pronounced mō"ning) |
| 5 | m ō" n i ng | bemoaning. |
| 4 | -ō" n i ng | boning, cloning, condoning, droning, groaning, honing, intoning, loaning, owning, phoning, postponing, rezoning, stoning, toning, zoning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-n-n-o" | |
-1 letter: amnion, mignon, naming, nomina. | |
-2 letters: amigo, amino, amnio, among, anion, gamin, gonia, imago, mango. | |
-3 letters: agin, agio, agon, amin, anon, gain, magi, main, mano, mina, moan, naoi, noma, nona, ogam. | |
-4 letters: ago, aim, ain, ami, ani, gam, gan, gin, goa, inn, ion, mag, man, mig, moa, mog, mon, nag, nam, nan, nim, nog, nom. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-n-n-o" | |
+1 letter: agnomina, masoning, nonimage, womaning. | |
+2 letters: amounting, bemoaning, cognomina, enamoring, gammoning, hamboning, marooning, montaging, omnirange, ransoming, romancing, tamponing. | |
+3 letters: antagonism, champignon, cognominal, comanaging, commanding, companying, diamonding, dominating, enamouring, gemination, goddamning, lampooning, meningioma, misatoning, mordanting, nominating, nonmigrant, omniranges, outmanning, romanising, romanizing, snowmaking, womanising, womanizing, workingman. | |
+4 letters: abominating, admonishing, ambitioning, ammoniating, ammonifying, anatomising, anatomizing, antagonisms, antifoaming, antismoking, bombinating, brominating, centimorgan, champignons, championing, coenamoring, complaining, emblazoning, geminations, germination, harmonising, harmonizing, imagination, longanimity, magnanimous, manifolding, manoeuvring, marathoning, margination, megaphoning, meningiomas, moneymaking, monograming, monolingual, noisemaking, nondogmatic, nonmagnetic, nonmigrants, nonorgasmic, normalising, normalizing, ornamenting, overmanning, pantomiming, plasminogen, promenading, randomizing. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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