Word: birchings
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: bir
chings
Definition: Plural of birching; whip with a birch twig
Morphemes:
Affix: birch
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: to punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns, from verbs.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.