spurning

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ

spurning

1. present participle and gerund of spurn

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!

• prunings, ringspun

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

spurning f (genitive singular spurningar, plural spurningar)

1. question

   Synonym: spurningur

spurn (“"asking", used in set phrases”) +‎ -ing (“-ing”).

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

spurning f (genitive singular spurningar, nominative plural spurningar)

1. question

• það er nú spurning

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) “spurning”, in Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

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

1. question