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boding

/ˈbəʊdɪŋ/ UK
/ˈboʊdɪŋ/ US

Rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -əʊdɪŋ, (General American) -oʊdɪŋ

adjective more boding · most boding

foreboding, ominous, portending. [E]very sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will from the hill side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; […]
Similar: inauspicious, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, foreboding, ill-boding

noun bodings

gerund gerund of bode: a prediction of disaster; an omen, a portent.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of bode

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@misc{boding_2026,
  title = {boding},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/boding},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}