Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A needy person; a person who is in want.
- n. Needlework.
- n. The process of using a surgical needle.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From needle + -ing. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He also delighted in needling O'Malley, apparently trying to disrupt the latter's eerily disciplined attachment to talking points stressing innovation, investment, education, and similar uplifting and visionary objectives.”
The Washington Post: Ehrlich livens up Md. race but doesn't knock out O'Malley
“A FRIEND WITH WHOM I HAVE A DAILY CORRESPONDENCE takes great pleasure in needling me on my, shall we say, adamantine position that we need to start fighting the First Terrorist War to win it and not as if we are engaged in a game of patty-cake.”
“And as Mortimer points out, more often than not, the people who do the needling are the ones who are lacking in elite university credentials themselves.”
“The Green Party national convention, scheduled to open here in a little more than two weeks, will certainly produce exactly that kind of needling chatter.”
Christine Escobar: Democrats Beware: The Green Party Convention Cometh!
“But the Church can keep 'needling' at some of the fundamental attitudes (just how did we get here, to a situation in which the unreality of a lot of our financial life simply spirals out of control?)”
University of Chichester, Lecture Question and Answer session
“China says US is "needling" China with arms sales to Taiwan.”
“That angered Di Nickle, who has lived at the estates for 11 years and is tired of what he feels is undue "needling" of residents about minor issues.”
“The acupuncture points are specific locations where the Meridians come to the surface of the skin, and are easily accessible by "needling," Moxibustion, and Acupressure.”
“The acupuncture points are specific locations where the Meridians come to the surface of the skin, and are easily accessible by "needling,”
“But they weren’t, and their needling was the least of his troubles.”
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Vocab_TC60Q_txtbook
most vocab in the textbook Page till end chapter 2.
forfeited, nullifying, avowed, libelous, sapped, fascistic, outclassed, revolting, ecumenical, looming, fretful, penitent and 86 more...
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abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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Under Milk Wood
moonless, night, starless, bible-black, cobblestreets, silent, hunched, courters-and-rabbits, invisible, limping, sloeblack, crowblack and 95 more...
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