cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wakening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakenings
Senses: glosses: The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
installing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of install
countering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counter
punting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of punt
inhibiting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inhibiting
form: most inhibiting
Derived terms: inhibitingly
myoinhibiting
noninhibiting
inhibiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inhibit
prolonging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prolong
prolonging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolongings
Senses: examples: text: the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: prolongation
gmailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gmail
whiffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whiff
whiffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiffings
Senses: examples: text: […] the tea had been poured from the cups into the deep saucers from which it would have been drunk with genteel blowings and whiffings, according to the custom of the time.
ref: 2014, Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt:
glosses: The act of one who, or that which, whiffs.
glosses: A mode of fishing with a handline for pollock, mackerel, etc.
whimpering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whimper
whimpering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whimperings
Senses: examples: text: And my sea-birds made a great confusion in the awful calm, filling it with flashing pinions and plaintive whimperings, and settling into the shape of a dome all formed of beating wings, in which I on my ship and the tridentiferous god of the sea were enclosed, face to face.
ref: 1912, Prospero [pseudonym; Frederick Rolfe], Caliban [pseudonym; Harry Pirie-Gordon], “The Thirteenth Papyrus”, in The Weird of the Wanderer: Being the Papyrus Records of Some Incidents in One of the Previous Lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe, London: William Rider & Son, Limited, […], →OCLC, page 128:
glosses: The sound of one who whimpers; a whimper; a feeble complaint.
Derived terms: hog-whimpering
ganking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gank
ganking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gankings
Senses: topics: games
gaming
glosses: Action of the verb to gank.
constraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But the design of the '730s' wasn't just about the seating formation. The Metro-style walkthrough interior was chosen because it is much more spacious than the '323s', where the interconnecting doors between carriages, narrow central aisle, and cramped areas by the passenger doors had been deemed particularly constraining.
ref: 2025 April 16, Pip Dunn, “The future is orange....”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 53:
glosses: present participle and gerund of constrain
constraining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constrainings
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.
ref: 1996, Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change:
glosses: The act by which something is constrained.
windmilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of windmill
windmilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As windmilling became more and more marginal, so there was less money to keep the mills in repair […]
ref: 1996, Richard Leslie Hills, Power from Wind: A History of Windmill Technology, page 215:
glosses: The process of milling with a windmill.
head butting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of head butt
persisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of persist
persisting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persistings
Senses: examples: text: Still, in the very fullest blaze of gospel light, while we see that both Christ and His work are most ungratefully and flagrantly dishonoured, by our persistings in the attempt to do for ourselves what He has told us we cannot do, […]
ref: 1854, Robert Aitken, The teaching of the types, page 99:
glosses: persistence
distracting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distracting
form: most distracting
Senses: examples: text: Sending a text message was considered to be the most distracting activity to perform while driving. From the list, the least distracting activity was having a conversation with a passenger.
ref: 2006, Daniel M. Sturnquist, Mobile Phones and Driving, page 51:
text: Whenever you make one aspect of a behavior more difficult (a more distracting environment), you want to make other aspects easier (walking beside the dog rather than twenty feet away).
ref: 2007, Cheryl Smith ·, Visiting the Dog Park: Having Fun, Staying Safe, page 42:
text: Please don't make a lot of loud, unnecessary noises—slamming the desk or copy machine drawer closed, etc. This is very distracting and rude.
ref: 2020, Sharese Dawkins, Do's and Don'ts to a Better Way of Living:
glosses: Causing a distraction; interfering with the ability to concentrate or focus.
Derived terms: distractingly
nondistracting
undistracting
distracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of distract
cuckolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckoldings
Etymology: From cuckold + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This might include giving a man a handjob and smearing his cum on his face, or it might involve forcing a man to lick his creampie out a woman's vagina or ass. Similar and related activities include snowballing and cum swapping, as well as women humiliating men through the use of other men's semen such as might take place in some cuckolding situations.
ref: 2017, Dave Holmes, Stuart J. Murray, Thomas Foth, Radical Sex Between Men: Assembling Desiring-Machines, Routledge, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: The practice of making a man a cuckold, especially as a sexual kink.
cuckolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cuckold + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cuckold
borking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːkiŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹkiŋ/
Forms: form: borkings
Etymology: From bork + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Above all it discusses the best tactics to defeat a borking. Having been in the [Ronald] Reagan White House when Robert Bork was borked, I knew something about the subject, which was a huge help when the same borking guns were turned on my friend Judge [D. Brooks] Smith years later.
ref: 2006 October 30, Jeffrey Lord, “Borking Rush”, in American Spectator, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2017:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The act of defeating a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
borking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːkiŋ/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹkiŋ/
Forms: form: Borking
Etymology: From bork + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bork.
mothballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mothball
mothballing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mothballings
Senses: glosses: The act of something being mothballed: taken out of service and stored for possible later use.
warping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English warpynge; equivalent to warp + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of warp
warping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warpings
Etymology: From Middle English warpynge; equivalent to warp + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Such inertia-less states stand in absolute contrast (and complementarity) to the positive disorders of Parkinsonism, with their intense inertia and resistance to change, their violent warpings of space and field[…]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: An action or motion that warps or twists.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area
examples: text: In the more rude state of the art of Weaving , it was the uniform practice in warping, to fix pins in two upright posts at a certain distance from each other, and a number of small pins upon the posts about nine inches distant from each pin
ref: 1822, Alexander Peddie, The Linen Manufacturer, Weaver, and Warper's Assistant:
glosses: The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver.
glosses: The practice of flooding agricultural land with turbid river water to add sediment to the soil.
Derived terms: reality warping
warping bank
warping hook
warping post
wing warping
trysting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tryst
trysting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪŋ
Forms: form: trystings
Senses: examples: text: He confesses that even at trystings with a lady a third is always present.
ref: 1968, Thomas Sturge Moore, Some Soldier Poets, page 41:
glosses: An appointment; a tryst.
moulting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moult
moulting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moultings
Senses: synonyms: ecdysis
glosses: A moult; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc.
cravening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of craven
sundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sunder
sundering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunderings
Senses: examples: text: The sunderings of love affairs
ref: 1979 August 4, Rudy Kikel, “Howard's Way”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
text: Meta-philosophy is an antidote: it attempts to surmount separations and sunderings, tries to unite speculative philosophy and critical theory with political action.
ref: 2002, Mike Crang, Nigel Thrift, Thinking Space, page 178:
glosses: The act by which something is sundered.
looping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loop
Derived terms: loopingly
nonlooping
looping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loopings
Senses: glosses: Something that loops; a looped pattern or action.
topics: education
glosses: The practice of having a teacher remain with the same group of students for more than one school year.
looping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare Dutch loopen (“to run”).
Senses: glosses: The running together of ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.
thwacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thwack
thwacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thwackings
Senses: examples: text: The next day he realised that, glorious as his hiding place was as an escape from books and thwackings, it had its disadvantages: the chief was that there was nothing to eat and drink, and that is a very serious thing for a growing boy […]
ref: 1907, W. Jenkyn Thomas, The Welsh Fairy Book:
glosses: The action or sound of a thwack; a beating.
flailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flail
flailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: flailings
Senses: examples: text: The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention.
glosses: A flailing action or motion.
flailing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more flailing
form: most flailing
Senses: examples: text: A flailing economy has left the country exposed to hyperinflation.
glosses: Having a lack of coordination, control, or successful outcome.
Derived terms: flailingly
encrusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encrust
munging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mung
munging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋ.ɪŋ/
/ˈmʌnd͡ʒ.ɪŋ/
/ˈmʌŋ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of munge
budgeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budgetings
Senses: glosses: The activity of constructing a budget.
Derived terms: capital budgeting
gender budgeting
budgeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of budget
conscripting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conscript
heisting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪstɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heist
mountebanking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mountebank
weening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weenings
Etymology: From Middle English wening (“supposition, opinion, presumption, doubt”), from Old English wēning (“supposition, doubt, doubtful thought”), equivalent to ween + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] and if I get a scanty living in the way I do, it is because the credulity of the people require such practices to satisfy their weenings — they wish to know all sorts of things, […]
ref: 1860, R.R.B., The Upland Hall, page 54:
glosses: Presumption, imagination, supposition.
Related terms: overweening
weening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ween
sepulchering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sepulcher
plummeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plummetting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plummet
plummeting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plummetings
form: plummetting
Senses: glosses: A violent or dramatic fall.
sniggering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snigger
sniggering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sniggerings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who sniggers.
clamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clamp
clamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -æmpɪŋ
Forms: form: clampings
Senses: examples: text: There are frequent clampings of cars that fail to display a parking permit.
glosses: The act by which something is clamped.
Derived terms: preclamping
wheelclamping
pioneering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pioneer
pioneering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Norway as a polar nation would not have been what it is today without their tireless pioneering efforts. []
glosses: Involving accomplishments or activities that have not been done before, or developing or using new methods or techniques.
Derived terms: pioneeringly
pioneering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The activity of the verb pioneer.
glosses: A scoutcraft skill that involves building structures using staves and knots.
interpreting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interpretings
form: interpretting
Senses: examples: text: To put these statements in the singular, of course, is to abstract — there is always a plurality of interpretings when interpretation takes place.
ref: 1984, Stephen A. Erickson, Human Presence: At the Boundaries of Meaning, page 86:
glosses: Synonym of interpretation (an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure)
synonyms: word: interpretation
extra: an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure
examples: text: The scholarship supporting translation and interpreting education necessarily entails discussions of assessment and there has been some encouraging work in this area.
ref: 2003, Gunilla M. Anderman, Margaret Rogers, Translation Today: Trends and Perspectives, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 205:
text: Is there a theory of interpreting, or a set of distinct theories of interpreting?
ref: 2013, Carmen Millán, Francesca Bartrina, The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 66:
text: An orphan among its peers, consecutive interpreting appears to have a short life and little if any luster.
ref: 2017, Alexander V. Kozin, Consecutive Interpreting: An Interdisciplinary Study, Springer, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: Synonym of interpretation (the discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another)
synonyms: word: interpretation
extra: the discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another
Derived terms: conference interpreting
consecutive interpreting
retour interpreting
simultaneous interpreting
whispered interpreting
whisper interpreting
interpreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interpretting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interpret
frisbeeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frisbee
ballyhooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ballyhoo
lacquering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lacquer
lacquering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacquerings
Senses: glosses: An application of lacquer.
blighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blight
blighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: blightings
Senses: examples: text: They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]
ref: 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company:
glosses: The act by which something is blighted.
Derived terms: blightingly
shucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shuck
shucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shuckings
Senses: synonyms: husking
cornshucking
cornhusking
glosses: Removal of a shuck; usually:
The act or process of shucking maize.
examples: text: We attended a corn shucking and two oyster shuckings.
synonyms: husking
husking bee
cornshucking
cornhusking
glosses: Removal of a shuck; usually:
A meeting of neighbours or friends to assist in this task; a fairground competition inspired by such communal work.
Derived terms: oyster-shucking knife
shucking knife
daydreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of daydream
daydreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daydreamings
Senses: glosses: An instance of daydreaming; a daydream or reverie.
interdicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interdict
hoovering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooverings
Senses: examples: text: Give your house a regular hoovering to prevent the build-up of dust.
glosses: The act of cleaning using a vacuum cleaner.
hoovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoover
afflicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of afflict
afflicting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afflictings
Senses: examples: text: And so usual a thing it is for gracious hearts to be humbled under the afflictings of God, that affliction is upon that score called humiliation.
ref: 1825, William Haslett, John Flavel, The Advices and Meditations, page 193:
glosses: An affliction.
molting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of molt
molting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moltings
Senses: glosses: A molt; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc.
soliciting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of solicit
soliciting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solicitings
Senses: examples: text: His wife added no timid solicitings to the advice of his well-wishers; for she saw he considered it his duty to remain, and be a sort of rallying point to the humble supporters of quiet and good order[…]
ref: 1848, “A house and its three tenants”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 32, page 162:
glosses: The act of one who solicits.
discomforting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discomforting
form: most discomforting
Senses: examples: text: After all, disorderliness can be very discomforting and dangerous.
ref: 2006, Chris Brook, Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile, Unruly Cities?, page 4:
text: The authors speculated that discussions about discrimination were more discomforting than discussions instilling ethnic pride, so parents refrained from initiating such discussions unless precipitated by a specific discriminatory incident.
ref: 2016, Roberta L. Coles, Race and Family: A Structural Approach, page 154:
text: So now a slightly more discomforting slide is shown: one of the nurse aiming the needle toward someone's bare arm.
ref: 2019, Spencer A. Rathus, Jeffrey S. Nevid, Psychology and the Challenges of Life, page 409:
glosses: Causing discomfort.
Derived terms: discomfortingly
discomforting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discomfort
tillering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tillerings
Senses: topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of grass species to produce multiple side shoots or tillers.
topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: A side shoot or tiller.
tillering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: present participle and gerund of tiller
RVing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of RV
clewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clew
coldcocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coldcock
pandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pander
packeting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of packet
stanchioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stanchion
refunding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refund
refunding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refundings
Senses: examples: text: But the same net amount of debt extension through cash offerings or regular refundings might be achieved in a variety of different combinations of securities and maturities […]
ref: 1965, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency, Hearings, page 29:
glosses: The return of money paid; a refund.
simpering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more simpering
form: most simpering
Senses: examples: text: Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug!
ref: 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 214:
text: I know they are supposed to be amusing, and you should be tolerant, but I wanted to swing on one, any one, anything to shatter that superior, simpering composure.
ref: 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises:
text: I had high hopes when I moved to Spyglass, but simpering gossip on celebrity parties seems to be the closest I've gotten so far to Dad's vocation.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: That sounds almost simpering. I hate sounding simpering, and over a trifling increase of four coppers on a gold, I definitely do not wish to sound simpering.
ref: 2015, L. E. Modesitt, Jr, Madness in Solidar, →ISBN:
glosses: Affected, smug, and supercilious.
simpering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of simper
simpering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simperings
Senses: examples: text: Well, but Polly attended, as I said; and there were strange simperings, and bowing, and courtesying, between them; the honest gentleman seeming not to know how to let his mistress wait upon him[…]
ref: 1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded:
glosses: The act of one who simpers.
Related terms: simperer
simping
lumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Forms: form: more lumping
form: most lumping
Etymology: From lump + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: a lumping great thing
text: VVilt thou purchaſe it Nic.? thou ſhalt have a lumping Pennyvvorth; nay, rather than vve ſhould differ, I'll give thee ſomething to take it off my Hands.
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “The Discourse that Pass’d between Nic. Frog and Esquire South, which John Bull Overheard”, in Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: Bulky; heavy.
Derived terms: lumpingly
lumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Forms: form: lumpings
Etymology: From lump + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The systems called descriptive have fewer such lumpings; the terminology which prevails in the United States today serves as an example.
ref: 1972, Wendell H. Oswalt, Other Peoples, Other Customs: World Ethnography and Its History:
glosses: gerund of lump: the act or result of lumping things together.
lumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Etymology: From lump + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lump
enlivening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enliven
enlivening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enlivenings
Senses: glosses: The process of making something more lively.
environing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of environ
grilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grill
grilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: grillings
Senses: glosses: A thorough interrogation.
glosses: The act or process of grilling, or broiling.
enthralling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enthralling
form: most enthralling
Senses: examples: text: The Abbess had not miscalculated the effect of the yesterday's ceremony—she knew it was not binding, but its influence as a religious obligation was enthralling to a degree.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 210-211:
text: Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.
ref: 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter XXX, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:
text: Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: exciting and absorbing
Derived terms: enthrallingly
unenthralling
enthralling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enthrall
renewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of renew
renewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renewings
Senses: glosses: A renewal.
renewing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more renewing
form: most renewing
Senses: examples: text: I am so sunk in the work’s psychology, I feel almost an alien, some renewing life form.
ref: 2021 January 7, Jillian Tamaki, “How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father”, in New York Times:
text: And with that, Hannibal leaves his enemies on the floor bathing in their own scarlet before stepping outside to a renewing baptism by rainfall before disappearing into the night.
ref: 2019 December 28, Melanie MacFarland, “Best TV episodes of the decade, a highly subjective list”, in Salon:
glosses: That renews someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
bawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːlɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
ref: 1611, William Shakepseare, The Tempest, act 1, scene 1:
glosses: present participle and gerund of bawl
bawling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːlɪŋ
Forms: form: bawlings
Senses: examples: E. F. Benson
Nobody could call Major Flint, with his bawlings and his sniffings, the least mysterious.
glosses: The act of one who bawls or shouts.
prospecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prospect
prospecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prospectings
Senses: examples: text: He declared that the country was an intellectual desert; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings, and the price of gold.
ref: 1858, William Howitt, Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria, page 54:
glosses: The act of one who prospects.
squandering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squander
squandering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squanderings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is squandered; wastage.
croqueting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of croquet
infecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infect
plumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plump
plumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumpings
Senses: examples: text: They shew the swellings of their mind, in the swellings and plumpings out of their apparel.
ref: 1815, Thomas Nash, Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem:
glosses: The act by which something is plumped.
detaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detain
detaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detainings
Senses: glosses: The act by which someone is detained; detention.
hafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of haft
enveloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of envelop
glosses: present participle and gerund of envelope
Derived terms: envelopingly
nonenveloping
preenveloping
pawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pawl
havening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of haven
short circuiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of short circuit
encountering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encounter
encountering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encounterings
Senses: examples: text: This is still a species of reflection because it thematizes encounterings and things-as-encountered, even if they do not occur in the mental life of the person reflectively observing them.
ref: 2010, Hans Rainer Sepp, Lester E. Embree, Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics, page 218:
glosses: An encounter; a meeting.
encountering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encountering
form: most encountering
Senses: examples: text: Let vs put on our meet incountering mindes,
And in deteſting ſuch a diueliſh Thiefe,
In loue of honor and defence of right
Be arm’d againſt the hate of ſuch a foe,
Whether from earth, or hell, or heauen he grow.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
glosses: Fit for an encounter or battle.
facepalming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of facepalm
bickering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bickering
form: most bickering
Senses: glosses: That bickers; argumentative.
Derived terms: bickeringly
unbickering
bickering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bickerings
Senses: examples: text: 1820, in Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, By William Coxe, Ch.40 heading.
Meeting of Parliament. — Choice of a whig Speaker. — Speech from the throne. — Parliamentary proceedings, and party bickerings.
text: By this time the two companies were beginning to realise that the continual bickering was not doing either of them much good, and the L.Y.R. (like many others) was becoming tired of the dominance of Euston.
ref: 1957 October 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:
text: After Evra was also shown a yellow card following a prolonged bout of bickering which also involved Suarez, Ferguson decided on a double change by replacing Park Ji-sung and Ashley Young with Nani and Rooney.
ref: 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
text: Ukrainian intelligence said on Friday that Prigozhin’s public bickering with the army leadership confirmed “their fear of responsibility for the inevitable geopolitical defeat of Moscow”.
ref: 2023 May 12, Pjotr Sauer, “Russian troops fall back to ‘defensive positions’ near Bakhmut”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Petty quarreling.
bickering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bicker
murking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of murk
squawking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squawkings
Senses: examples: text: She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.
ref: 1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: Squawk, the sound of a squawk.
squawking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of squawk
lambasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lambast
glosses: present participle and gerund of lambaste
lambasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambastings
Senses: examples: text: Republicans, churches, and moneyed interests were the chief recipients of these lambastings, along with blacks and anyone responsible for bringing the Philippine Islands under American control.
ref: 2005, Herbert K. Russell, Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography, page 151:
glosses: A harsh reprimand.
glosses: A beating or thrashing.
smearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smear
smearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: smearings
Senses: glosses: Something smeared or daubed.
Derived terms: leap smearing
clumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clump
clumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌmpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌmpɪŋ
Forms: form: clumpings
Senses: examples: text: BMP-2 and BMP-4 also induce the expression of the neurotrophin receptor, TrkC, in cultured crest-derived cells and induce the cells to coalesce into ganglion-like clumpings.
ref: 2006, Patrizia Ferretti, Andrew Copp, Cheryll Tickle, Embryos, Genes and Birth Defects:
glosses: A clump or cluster.
examples: text: Heavy backstair clumpings announce huge Ab, my negro paddler.
ref: 1916, Nash Buckingham, De Shootinest Gent'man:
glosses: The sound of walking with heavy footfalls.
Derived terms: anticlumping
macroclumping
microclumping
nonclumping
outreaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outreach
outreaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outreachings
Senses: examples: text: She had her confused outreachings toward other centres of sensation, her vague intuition of a heliocentric system; but the attraction of habit, the steady pressure of example, gradually fixed her roving allegiance[…]
ref: 1901, Edith Wharton, Crucial Instances:
glosses: An act of reaching out.
precautioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precaution
rejoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rejoin
rejoining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejoinings
Senses: glosses: The act of joining again.
encumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encumbering
form: most encumbering
Senses: examples: text: There is not a more encumbering impediment to success, than the affection of gratitude.
ref: 1814 March 1, G. Haliton, “Instructions in the Art of Rising in the World”, in The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Register, volume 1, number 2:
text: We are apt to think the close-fitted turban of the Asiatic a singular head-dress; and such as must be very encumbering in a hot climate; but this light yet bulky covering is, precisely, the defence which experience has taught the wearer to place upon his head, in situations in which the direct impulse of the rays might otherwise prove fatal.
ref: 1843, Luke Howard, Seven Lectures on Meteorology, page 49:
text: "Why my husband wants him about—" poor Mrs. Lanfear, the kindest of women, privately lamented to her friends; for Dredge, at that time—they kept him all summer at the bungalow—had one of the most encumbering personalities you can imagine.
ref: 1910, Edith Wharton, Tales of Men and Ghosts, page 130:
glosses: Acting as an encumbrance; cumbersome; burdensome or serving to impede progress.
Derived terms: encumberingly
encumbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encumber
refracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refract
refracting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refractings
Senses: examples: text: Imaginal forms are virtual but fully individual refractings of light, or individual souls conceived as immaterial but distinct 'imaginings' of God.
ref: 2006, Peter Hallward, Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation, page 85:
glosses: An act of refraction.
girding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gird
girding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: girdings
Senses: examples: text: Bossuet thus beautifully addresses the Saviour of the world, when the girdings of his childhood were first untied […]
ref: 1823, Charles Butler, A continuation of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints to the Present Time, page 23:
glosses: A binding or encircling.
Related terms: loin-girding
caroming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carom
entrusting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of entrust
chomping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chomp
chomping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chompings
Senses: examples: E. E. Cummings
They had quite a layout, a regular picnic-lunch elaborate enough for kings or even presidents. The v-f-g in particular annoyed me by uttering alternate chompings and belchings.
glosses: The sound or action of one who chomps.
grandstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandstandings
Etymology: From grandstand + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
text: "We are tired of the shutdowns and the showdowns, the gridlock and the grandstanding," Klobuchar said in a speech to supporters. "Our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity. Not by wallowing over what’s wrong, but by marching inexorably toward what’s right."
ref: 2019 February 10, Elena Schneider, "Klobuchar jumps into presidential race":
text: For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street.
ref: 2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:
glosses: Dramatic or showy behavior intended to impress an audience or observers.
Derived terms: brandstanding
grandstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From grandstand + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grandstand
recollecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recollect
coifing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coif
skewering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skewer
skewering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skewerings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is skewered.
likening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of liken
likening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: likenings
Senses: examples: text: I sometimes, in musing mood, find myself making spontaneous likenings of inanimate to animate nature, comparing the qualities of things to the qualities of men[…]
ref: 1841, The Ladies' Repository, volume 1, page 289:
glosses: The act by which things are likened; a comparison.
lowballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lowball
lengthening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɛŋ(k)θnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛŋkθənɪŋ
Forms: form: lengthenings
Etymology: From lengthen + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This enabled an additional 15-20 containers to be carried per train, giving a 20% productivity gain, and was partly enabled by Network Rail completing the lengthening of loops on the route northwards from Southampton via Banbury.
ref: 2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: Train Lengthening”, in RAIL, number 940, page 56:
glosses: The process of making or growing longer.
topics: human-sciences
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phonology
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glosses: a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens
Derived terms: compensatory lengthening
lengthening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɛŋ(k)θnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɛŋ(k)θənɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛŋkθənɪŋ
Etymology: From lengthen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lengthen
cooning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːnɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night.
ref: 1876, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 1, Hurd and Houghton, page 76
text: But if he [the dog] strikes a trail, you presently hear...loud and repeated barking as he reaches the foot of the tree in which the coon has taken refuge. Then follows a pellmell rush of the cooning party up the hill, into the woods, through the brush and the darkness
ref: 1875, John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine, part 2, Kessinger Publishing (2004), pages 72–73
text: These are the kind of men who have served their time and taken all the six degrees necessary to a scout's full education, “foxing, snaking, moling, cooning, possuming, and, if need be, wolfing ;” who riding at a canter through the woods, will stop their horse...
ref: 1932, The Atlantic Monthly, volume information kept strictly confidential by Google Books, page 635
text: I met Colonel Davy a-going out a-cooning,
Says I, “Davy Crockett, how do you hunt without a gun?”
“Oh,” says he, “Pompey Smash, if you’ll follow along with Davy,
I’ll soon show you how for to grin a coon crazy.”
ref: 1950, William A. Owens, compiler, Texas Folk Songs, page 245:
text: “Aren’t there any Coons ’round here, Mr. Clark?”
ref: 1962, Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages, Courier Dover Publications,, →ISBN, page 276:
english: “Oh, I reckon so. Y-e-s! Down a piece in the hardwood bush near Widdy Biddy Baggs’s place there’s lots o’ likely Cooning ground.”
translation: “Oh, I reckon so. Y-e-s! Down a piece in the hardwood bush near Widdy Biddy Baggs’s place there’s lots o’ likely Cooning ground.”
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glosses: Racoon hunting.
cooning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coon
bedeviling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedevilling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedevil
bedeviling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedevilings
form: bedevilling
Senses: glosses: An act by which somebody is bedevilled; causing of trouble; harassment.
weltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: While weltering in the purple stream
That dyed their garments' fold,
Their flowing curls profusely lay,
Bright chesnut blent with gold.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Carloman and Merovee, page 82:
glosses: present participle and gerund of welter