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Golding

//ˈɡoʊldɪŋ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

    "Writing at Hello Beautiful, Shenequa Golding says she’s most upset at African Americans who stereotype her based on a choice her mother made."

Noun
  1. 1
    A gold coin. obsolete
  2. 2
    A kind of red hop, a sub-variety of the Canterbury hop.
  3. 3
    A kind of apple; a goldling. obsolete
  4. 4
    The corn marigold (Glebionis segetum). Midlands, North, UK, dialectal
  5. 5
    The ladybird (family Coccinellidae).
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of gold form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

First attested circa 1580; formed as gold + -ing.

Etymology 2

First attested in 1798; from the surname (Golding) of the man who developed the sub-variety (in 1790).

Etymology 3

From gold (“pyrolyse food to a golden brown”) + -ing.

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