Definitions for harping

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harping harp·ing

Spelling: [hahr-ping]

IPA: /ˈhɑr pɪŋ/

Harping is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 168 anagrams from letters in harping (aghinpr).

Definitions for harping

noun

1. any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.
2. a musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a soundbox, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the soundbox and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.
3. anything that resembles this instrument, especially in having a row of parallel strings or wires, as various mechanical devices or kitchen implements for slicing cheese.
4. a vertical metal frame shaped to bend around the bulb in a standing lamp and used to support a lamp shade.
5. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of Irish birth or descent.
6. Also called harper. any of several English coins issued for use in Ireland during the 16th and 17th centuries, bearing the figure of a harp on the reverse.
7. South Midland and Southern U.S. a mouth harp; harmonica.

Verb phrases

1. harp on/upon, to dwell on persistently or tediously in speaking or writing:

verb (used without object)

1. to play on a harp.

Origin of harping

1620-30; perhaps harp + -ing¹

Examples for harping

harping about a Republican war on women while wages stagnate and growth sputters is trivial and desperate.

Digging and mining will be done; so will harping and singing.

Nothing else could have such a fatal facility for harping on one string.

I wish you are not indeed angry with me for harping so much on one string.

“For three months he had been harping on that he had made a mistake and had lost his way,” she writes in May 2014.

"I don't see the use of your harping on that affair," said Hardman angrily.

So are my Marlboros, which my wife has been harping on ever since I started up smoking again.

The sequester, tax increases, and the continual Republican harping on budget cuts have all caused damage to the labor market.

I can't see why you keep on harping on his fitness for the place.

There is nothing to be gained by harping on about events in 2002, however disconcerting those events were.