# souling

Pronunciation: say "SOHL-ing" US /ˈsoʊlɪŋ/, UK /ˈsəʊlɪŋ/, AUS /ˈsəʉlɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of soul. — present participle and gerund of soul
   - Simple: Present participle of soul. Use this form for the action while it is happening or as the name of the activity.
   - _Whole families went souling across the parish, knocking for cakes and small coins._
   - _Souling late into the evening, the village poor collected enough to last the week._

## Noun

2. The practice of giving and receiving soul cakes on All Souls' Day, usually by groups going from door to door.
   - Simple: The old custom of sharing small cakes from house to house on All Souls' Day.
   - _In many northern parishes, souling marked the start of November as surely as the first frost._
   - _Her grandmother remembered souling as a chance for poorer families to gather food and a few coins._

## Origin

Formed from "soul" combined with the suffix "-ing".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/souling (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).