assling

See also: Assling

English

Etymology 1

From assle +‎ -ing.

Verb

assling

1. present participle and gerund of assle

Noun

assling (uncountable)

1. The act of loafing around; hesitation

Etymology 2

From ass +‎ -ling.

Noun

assling (plural asslings)

1. (pejorative and offensive when applied to people) A small or young ass (all senses)
   • 1843, Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné, Jacob Jan Le Roy, History of the Reformation in the sixteenth century:

     Already had Lecouturier, commonly called, from his Latin name, Sutor, taken the lead by launching against Erasmus, from his solitary chartreux cell, a publication replete with violence, in which he called his opponents theologasters, and asslings, imputing to them scandals, heresies, and blasphemies.

   • 2012, Avram Davidson, The Island Under the Earth:

     […] only sometimes at night she murmured or cried out in strange syllables Stag took to be her native tongue: but not often, not for long), the ass-man and the laden onagers — big, healthy, sandy or reddish-colored beasts: different from the stunty gray asslings of the Northern Capes — and rested at the corner.

   • 2016, Z.A. Maxfield, Deep Deliverance:

     “These are entitled asslings, you realize? They found out they could get cash if they turned rogues over to the big pharma companies. […] ”

Anagrams

• Salings, in glass, lasings, signals