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Meaning of punding | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A human activity characterized by compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects.
  2. 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

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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