Definition of Tunding

1. Noun. (UK archaic school slang) A caning. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tunding

1. tund [v] - See also: tund

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tunding

tuna melt
tuna oil
tuna salad
tunabilities
tunability
tunable
tunableness
tunablenesses
tunably
tunaburger
tunalike
tunas
tunbelly
tund
tunded
tunding (current term)
tundings
tundish
tundishes
tundra
tundra soil
tundra swan
tundra swans
tundra vole
tundra voles
tundra wolf
tundra wolves
tundras
tunds
tundun

Literary usage of Tunding

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"From tamp, to fill up a hole in a rock for the purpose of blasting; to plug. Tum-tum (Anglo-Indian), a dogcart. Tund (schoolboys), tunding at Winchester ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"The boy appealed to the head-master, who told him he must submit to the "tunding." The number of " cuts " which a prefect may give, is theoretically limited ..."

3. A History of Winchester College by Arthur Francis Leach (1899)
"The best proof that can be given that tunding has been reduced to the requisite minimum is, that my own son, who has been in College for three years, ..."

4. A History of Winchester College by Arthur Francis Leach (1899)
"The best proof that can be given that tunding has been reduced to the requisite minimum is, that my own son, who has been in College for three years, ..."

5. What I Remember by Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1888)
"It was the " prefect of hall " who ordered the infliction of a " public tunding." The strange phrase, dropped by some unlucky chance into ears to which it ..."

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