pelting
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
pelting
- present participle and gerund of pelt
Noun edit
pelting (plural peltings)
- The act by which somebody or something is pelted.
- 1830, Baptist Missionary Magazine, volume 10, page 88:
- […] the rain began to pour down in torrents, and we exposed our persons to the peltings of the shower rather than have our few books and remaining dry clothes injured.
Etymology 2 edit
Related to paltry.
Adjective edit
pelting (comparative more pelting, superlative most pelting)
- (obsolete) mean; paltry
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
- I pray you, let us see you in the field;
We have had pelting wars since you refused
The Grecians' cause.