Meaning of punding | Babel Free
Definitions
- A human activity characterized by compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects.
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Archaic form of pudding. alt-of, archaic
Examples
“Punding may consist⟳ of activities such as collecting pebbles and lining them up as perfectly as possible, or disassembling doorknobs and putting them back together again.”
“What Pollan is describing here is a mild form⟳ of ‘punding’, a phenomenon first described by intravenous amphetamine addicts.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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