fling: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words
Prefixes of fling
- trifling«Word Popularity Bar4/5
trifling
- noun the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
dawdling; dalliance.
- verb waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
trifle; piddle away; wanton; wanton away; piddle.
- noun the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working
- shuffling«3/5
shuffling
- noun walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
shambling; shuffle; shamble.
- from his shambling I assumed he was very old
- noun the act of mixing cards haphazardly
make; shuffle.
- noun walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
- baffling«3/5
baffling
- adjective satellite making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
tough; problematic; elusive; problematical; knotty.
- a baffling problem
- I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
- a problematic situation at home
- verb be a mystery or bewildering to
mystify; perplex; bewilder; get; beat; puzzle; pose; amaze; vex; baffle; flummox; stick; stupefy; gravel; nonplus; dumbfound.
- This beats me!
- Got me--I don't know the answer!
- a vexing problem
- This question really stuck me
- adjective satellite making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- stifling«3/5
stifling
- noun forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
quelling; crushing; suppression.
- the suppression of heresy
- the quelling of the rebellion
- the stifling of all dissent
- verb conceal or hide
muffle; strangle; stifle; smother; repress.
- smother a yawn
- muffle one's anger
- strangle a yawn
- noun forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
- ruffling«2/5
ruffle
- noun a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
flounce; frill; furbelow.
- noun a high tight collar
choker; neck ruff; ruff.
- noun a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- scuffling«2/5
scuffle
- noun disorderly fighting
tussle; dogfight; hassle; rough-and-tumble.
- noun a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
scuffle hoe; Dutch hoe.
- noun disorderly fighting
- sniffling«2/5
sniffle
- noun the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)
snuffle; snivel.
- verb cry or whine with snuffling
blubber; snuffle; snivel; blub.
- Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!
- noun the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)
- reshuffling«2/5
reshuffling
- noun shuffling again
reshuffle.
- the gambler demanded a reshuffle
- verb shuffle again
reshuffle.
- So as to prevent cheating, he was asked to reshuffle the cards
- noun shuffling again
- muffling«2/5
muffle
- noun a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
- verb conceal or hide
strangle; stifle; smother; repress.
- smother a yawn
- muffle one's anger
- strangle a yawn
- noun a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
- snuffling«2/5
snuffling
- adjective satellite liable to sniffle
sniffly; snuffly.
- verb sniff or smell inquiringly
snuff; snuffle.
- adjective satellite liable to sniffle
- rifling«2/5
rifling
- noun the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm
grooving.
- verb steal goods; take as spoils
pillage; strip; despoil; plunder; foray; rifle; loot; reave; ransack.
- During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners
- noun the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm
- riffling«1/5
riffle
- noun a small wave on the surface of a liquid
ripple; wavelet; rippling.
- noun shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
- noun a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- waffling«1/5
waffle
- noun pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
- verb pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
hesitate; waver.
- Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures
- noun pancake batter baked in a waffle iron
- raffling«1/5
raffle
- noun a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
- verb dispose of in a lottery
raffle off.
- We raffled off a trip to the Bahamas
- noun a lottery in which the prizes are goods rather than money
- piffling«1/5
piffling
- adjective satellite (informal) small and of little importance
little; petty; footling; niggling; trivial; piddling; fiddling; picayune; lilliputian.
- a fiddling sum of money
- a footling gesture
- our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
- a little (or small) matter
- a dispute over niggling details
- limited to petty enterprises
- piffling efforts
- giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
- verb speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
prate; chatter; tattle; piffle; gabble; blab; gibber; clack; tittle-tattle; prattle; maunder; palaver; blabber; twaddle.
- adjective satellite (informal) small and of little importance
- halfling«1/5
halfling
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- purfling«1/5
purfling
Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.
- whiffling«1/5
whiffle
To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about. Dmpier.
Suffixes of fling
- flinging«Word Popularity Bar3/5
fling
- noun a usually brief attempt
whirl; offer; crack; pass; go.
- he took a crack at it
- I gave it a whirl
- noun a brief indulgence of your impulses
spree.
- noun a usually brief attempt
- flings«2/5
fling
- noun a usually brief attempt
whirl; offer; crack; pass; go.
- he took a crack at it
- I gave it a whirl
- noun a brief indulgence of your impulses
spree.
- noun a usually brief attempt
- flinger«1/5
fling
- noun a usually brief attempt
whirl; offer; crack; pass; go.
- he took a crack at it
- I gave it a whirl
- noun a brief indulgence of your impulses
spree.
- noun a usually brief attempt
Derived words of fling
- shufflings«Word Popularity Bar1/5
shuffling
- noun walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
shambling; shuffle; shamble.
- from his shambling I assumed he was very old
- noun the act of mixing cards haphazardly
make; shuffle.
- noun walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
- stiflingly«1/5
stifling
- noun forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
quelling; crushing; suppression.
- the suppression of heresy
- the quelling of the rebellion
- the stifling of all dissent
- verb conceal or hide
muffle; strangle; stifle; smother; repress.
- smother a yawn
- muffle one's anger
- strangle a yawn
- noun forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
- bafflingly«1/5
baffling
- adjective satellite making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
tough; problematic; elusive; problematical; knotty.
- a baffling problem
- I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
- a problematic situation at home
- verb be a mystery or bewildering to
mystify; perplex; bewilder; get; beat; puzzle; pose; amaze; vex; baffle; flummox; stick; stupefy; gravel; nonplus; dumbfound.
- This beats me!
- Got me--I don't know the answer!
- a vexing problem
- This question really stuck me
- adjective satellite making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
- halflings«1/5
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `fling`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.
While some of the words are direct derivations of the word `fling`, some are not.
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