spurning

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ

Verb

spurning

1. present participle and gerund of spurn

Noun

spurning (plural spurnings)

1. The act of one who spurns.
   • 1842, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Disowned, page 286:

     But what are your foot-ploddings, your ambulating rejoicings, to the free etherealities which our courser's light bound and exultant spurnings of the dull earth bring to the spirit!

Anagrams

• prunings, ringspun

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spʊɹniŋk/
• Rhymes: -ʊɹniŋk

Noun

spurning f (genitive singular spurningar, plural spurningar)

1. question

   Synonym: spurningur

Declension

f6	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	spurning	spurningin	spurningar	spurningarnar
Accusative	spurning	spurningina	spurningar	spurningarnar
Dative	spurning	spurningini	spurningum	spurningunum
Genitive	spurningar	spurningarinnar	spurninga	spurninganna

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspʏrtniŋk/
• Rhymes: -ʏrtniŋk

Noun

spurning f (genitive singular spurningar, nominative plural spurningar)

1. question

Derived terms

• það er nú spurning

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

spurning f (definite singular spurninga, indefinite plural spurningar, definite plural spurningane)

1. question