Word: breeching
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: bree
ching
Definition: The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
Morphemes:
Affix: breech
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To dress in breeches. To dress a boy in breeches or trousers for the first time (the breeching ceremony).
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.