Definitions for mayings

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mayings May·ing

Spelling: [mey-ing]

IPA: /ˈmeɪ ɪŋ/

Mayings is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in mayings (agimnsy).

Definitions for mayings

noun

1. the celebration of May Day.
2. the fifth month of the year, containing 31 days.
3. the early part of one's life, especially the prime:
4. the festivities of May Day.
5. (lowercase) British. the hawthorn.
6. a female given name.
7. Cape, a cape at the SE tip of New Jersey, on Delaware Bay.

verb (used without object)

1. (lowercase) to gather flowers in the spring:

Origin of mayings

1350-1400; Middle English maiing; see May, -ing¹

Examples for mayings

But it takes a great deal to discourage children from going "Maying."

It calms the mind to listen to your wife's niece singing, "Oh, that we two were Maying!"

I know you'll like 'Now is the month of Maying' and 'The trees all budding'.

But shall I find in any society such an unmeasured freedom of Maying?

But then it occurred to me how very seldom one did meet a Quaker nowadays except in the "month of Maying."