Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

baying

/bˈeɪɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.27 in modern English

Syllables: bay-ing
IPA: /bˈeɪɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of bay

noun

An instance of baying; a howl.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The mob approached the castle, baying for royal blood."
"1877, Charles Cayley (translator), Homer Iliad, book XXI Soon as he hears bayings, and is not alarm'd nor affrighted..."
"...the distressed bayings of his dogs, ..."
"And the thrill which their ill-omened bayings send through people at large is a measure of the state of tension in which the general mind is held."
"When I had advanced some distance into the forest, I heard the notes of the bugle and the distant baying of hounds in full cry, which gradually ceased, till nothing but a faint echo of the bugle reached my ear."
"1907, Frank Justus Miller (translator), Seneca, Hercules Furens Act III Who, tossing back and forth his triple heads,/ With mighty bayings watches o'er the realm."

Usage

Inflected Forms

bayings (plural)

Rhymes With

saying playing paying non-paying staying laying praying weighing displaying spraying delaying surveying

Questions

How do you pronounce baying?: The recorded pronunciation is /bˈeɪɪŋ/.
What does baying mean?: present participle and gerund of bay

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