gaingiving

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
22
Letters
10

Definition of gaingiving

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A misgiving; an internal feeling or prognostication of evil.
    “It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of gaingiving as would perhaps trouble a woman.”
    “"I tell thee what it is, Dick," he growled, "I have a gaingiving come over me, as I think on yonder barn ; it well nigh makes me turn back, now we are within a stone's throw of it, and that's the truth.”
    “His olden courage is without reproach; Albeit his temper trends toward gaingiving!”
    ““A hasty withdrawing on thy part, or a gaingiving in thy look, those will serve.””
    “The hero of our play will be, not only a man who might have made a soldier, "had he been put on," and who has effectively been relieved of his vigil by the time we bid him farewell, but one also who, though he scorns to be troubled by "gaingiving", [...]”
See all 2 definitions

noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A misgiving; an internal feeling or prognostication of evil.
    “It is but foolery, but it is such a kind of gaingiving as would perhaps trouble a woman.”
    “"I tell thee what it is, Dick," he growled, "I have a gaingiving come over me, as I think on yonder barn ; it well nigh makes me turn back, now we are within a stone's throw of it, and that's the truth.”
    “His olden courage is without reproach; Albeit his temper trends toward gaingiving!”
    ““A hasty withdrawing on thy part, or a gaingiving in thy look, those will serve.””
    “The hero of our play will be, not only a man who might have made a soldier, "had he been put on," and who has effectively been relieved of his vigil by the time we bid him farewell, but one also who, though he scorns to be troubled by "gaingiving", [...]”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A giving against or away.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From gain- + giving.

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

A single letter you can add to gaingiving to make another valid word.

Find your best play with gaingiving

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes gaingiving, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.