Addlings
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Addlings is a noun meaning (UK, Yorkshire, dialect, archaic) Earnings.
Meaning
(UK, Yorkshire, dialect, archaic) Earnings.
Example Sentences
Short harvests make short addlings [earnings]. – YORKSHIRE.
He din’t heve mich i t’way o addlins but it wor just enuff to get by.
[…] addlings, wages received for work. A gentleman has informed me, that in Nottinghamshire, and throughout the north, with some variation of sound, addle and addlings are now in use.
ADDLINGS, wages. "Poor addlings," small pay for work. "Hard addlings," money laboriously acquired. "Saving's good addling," as the well known saying, "a penny saved is a penny gained."
Word Forms
- addlins
- addling
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ettling, annumeration, aught, appension, acervation, accrue.
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