EYING
What does "EYING" mean?
A variant spelling of 'eyeing': looking at something with interest or suspicion.
Meanings
- Present participle of 'eye': watching or regarding closely, often with desire or wariness. The cat sat eying the bird through the glass.
Word origin
The present participle of the verb 'eye', from Old English 'eage' (eye), of Germanic origin; 'eying' is the older, less common spelling, with 'eyeing' now standard.
Remember it
EYING is EYE without the second E, then -ING: the eye keeps watching even when it loses a letter.
A little poem
Cat at the window-
the sparrow's whole small future
weighed in one slow blink.
haiku
What it teaches
Watching is never neutral; the way you eye a thing already decides half of what you'll see.
Quick facts
What does EYING mean?
A variant spelling of 'eyeing': looking at something with interest or suspicion.
Is EYING a valid word?
Yes — EYING is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is EYING?
EYING has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does EYING come from?
The present participle of the verb 'eye', from Old English 'eage' (eye), of Germanic origin; 'eying' is the older, less common spelling, with 'eyeing' now standard.
What can EYING teach us?
Watching is never neutral; the way you eye a thing already decides half of what you'll see.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.