Costning Definition

noun

(UK dialectal) Temptation.

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Origin of Costning

  • From Middle English costning, costnunge, from Old English costnung (“temptation, testing, trial, tribulation”), from Old English costnian, variant of Old English costian (“to tempt, try, prove, examine”), from Proto-Germanic *kustōną (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *geus- (“to enjoy, taste”), equivalent to cost +‎ -ing. Cognate with German kosten (“to taste”). Related to choose.

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