paringnoun [ C usually plural ]
uk/ˈpeə.rɪŋ/us/ˈper.ɪŋ/a thin piece that has been cut away from something:
We feed most of our vegetable parings to the guinea pigs.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Words meaning small pieces and amounts
- by a nose idiom
- chip
- clipping
- crumb
- dollop
- droplet
- flake
- germ
- jot
- nose
- pat
- patch
- pennyworth
- pinpoint
- scattering
- scintilla
- shadow
- shard
- shred
- slip
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