dirging
English edit
Verb edit
dirging
- present participle and gerund of dirge
Adjective edit
dirging (not comparable)
- Sung as a dirge; sounding as a dirge.
- 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 186:
- But the oaks' dirging melody no longer moaned for him; to-day she caught her own sad reflex in their shivering lament.