nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: norming Part of Speech: noun 1. The endowing of a vector space, etc. with a norm. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: scalping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. present participle and gerund of scalp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: scalping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From scalp (noun) + -ing. 1. The action by which someone is scalped. 2. A fraudulent form of market manipulation in which a person buys shares immediately before recommending the shares to others, thus driving the price up. 3. A legitimate method of arbitrage of small price gaps created by the bid-ask spread.
Word: toenailing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of toenail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cloistering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of cloister Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chiseling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of chisel Labels: US, form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: chiseling Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative form of chiselling. Labels: alt-of, alternative
Word: blackmailing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of blackmail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blackmailing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who blackmails. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.
Word: garlanding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of garland Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: garlanding Part of Speech: noun 1. An arrangement of garlands. Example: It is beyond us, as we thread the ruined streets: above us, as we stand upon the ruined walls, we follow it through every vista of broken columns, as we wander through the empty court-yards of the houses; and through the garlandings and interlacings of every wanton vine. Example: In every temple of every god processions were held and offerings made by those who had anything left to offer, while the statues of the gods were dressed in fine new garments and hung about with garlandings of flowers.
Word: attesting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /əˈtɛstɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of attest Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cuffing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkʌfɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of cuff Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cuffing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkʌfɪŋ/ 1. The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days, I being born to it and unaware that elsewhere there were other methods; but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher. 2. The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: bleeping Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈbliːpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of bleep Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bleeping Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈbliːpɪŋ/ 1. A generic intensifier which can be substituted for any profane intensifier. Labels: UK, euphemistic, not-comparable, slang Example: Are you bleeping kidding me? That's the amount of rent we agreed!
Word: bleeping Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈbliːpɪŋ/ 1. An instance of bleeping; a sound that bleeps.
Word: whisking Part of Speech: noun 1. The motion of something that is whisked. Example: the whiskings of a horse's tail 2. The movement of an animal's whiskers.
Word: whisking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of whisk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tasking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of task Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tasking Part of Speech: noun 1. A task; an assigned item of work. Example: Action officers receive taskings in many ways. A top boss will grab you in the hall and tell you to do something, some key official will give you multiple taskings right in the middle of your briefing, and you will pick up taskings in staff meetings […]
Word: faulting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of fault Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: faulting Part of Speech: noun 1. Formation of a geological fault.
Word: girting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of girt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: impugning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of impugn Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tranching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tranch Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present 2. present participle and gerund of tranche Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cornering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of corner Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cornering Part of Speech: noun 1. A piece of decorative work forming a corner. Example: We have been informed that these cornerings are rarely used when the ceilings are not decorated […] 2. The act by which somebody is cornered. Example: 1809–1812, Maria Edgeworth, "Manoeuvring", in Tales of Fashionable Life Aside; ay, ay, but take care, I advise you, of her asides, and her whisperings, and her cornerings, and her inuendoes, and semiconfidences, lest your own happiness, my dear, unsuspecting, enthusiastic daughter, should be the sacrifice.
Word: propositioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of proposition Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: officering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of officer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: succumbing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of succumb Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: indicting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of indict Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sleepwalking Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of walking while not conscious or aware of it, during one's sleep. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The play presents a whole gamut of such causes, from irrational passions, omens, prophecies, haunted sleepwalkings, nightmares, prodigies of nature, and conjurings, to Laius's ghost in four incarnations […]
Word: sleepwalking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sleepwalk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: complimenting Part of Speech: adj 1. complimentary; in the nature of a compliment.
Word: complimenting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of compliment Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: compacting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of compact Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: snickering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of snicker Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: snickering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who snickers.
Word: kowtowing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of kowtow Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: kowtowing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who kowtows; a submissive bow. Example: Yoritomo met their smiles and kowtowings and noisy insuckings of breath with an austere dignity that I took pains to imitate.
Word: blackening Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From blacken + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of blacken Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blackening Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From blacken + -ing. 1. The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour. Labels: uncountable 2. The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark. Labels: countable 3. Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion. Labels: countable, uncountable 4. The act of defaming or sullying. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: blackenings of my reputation
Word: countermanding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of countermand Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: countermanding Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of something being countermanded. Example: Let us bless him as we see acts of friends or foes to him and his children, proclamations and repudiations, orders and countermandings, motions of loyalty and rebellion, all providentially arranging themselves as so many onward steps […]
Word: destructing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of destruct Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hooraying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hooray Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wagoning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of wagon Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: butchering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English butch Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English butcher Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English butchering From butcher + -ing. 1. The act by which someone or something is butchered. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses) Example: Great crowds turned out to watch the carcass portioned out. The butchering itself was rough and inexpert, conducted rapidly with a serrated knife on the side of the road. 2. The act by which someone or something is butchered. Labels: countable, uncountable 3. The act by which someone or something is butchered. Labels: broadly, countable, uncountable 4. The act by which someone or something is butchered. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Word: butchering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English butch Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Germanic *-izô Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō Proto-Germanic *-ōzô Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō Old English -ra Middle English -ere English -er English butcher Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English butchering From butcher + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of butcher Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: careering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From career + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of career Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: careering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From career + -ing. 1. Rapid, uncontrollable headlong motion. Example: My old friend had tricks, but then I knew its tricks, and I was not less displeased at its manoeuvres, than a good rider is at the well known plunges and careerings of a favorite steed.
Word: buoying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of buoy Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: keelhauling Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From keelhaul + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːlhɔːlɪŋ/, /ˈkiːlhɔlɪŋ/ 1. The act by which a person is keelhauled. Example: ‘We was a-talkin’ of keel-hauling,’ answered Morgan. / ‘Keel-hauling, was you? And a mighty suitable thing, too, and you may lay to that. Get back to your place for a lubber, Tom.’ Example: The British, French and Dutch navies also practiced a grimmer form of choking. Sailors hung the victim from the lowest beam (the yardarm) of the main mast on one side of the ship and then, using pulleys, dragged him with ropes beneath the ship's keel to the other side of the long beam. This was called “keelhauling.” Keelhauling was not some ancient nautical torture. It originated with the modern navy. […] The British abolished keelhauling in 1720 and the French and Dutch in 1750. The practice continued unofficially for some years afterward, but there are no British records of keelhauling after 1770, and the last Dutch record was in 1806. 2. A thorough thrashing or mauling; rough treatment. Labels: broadly, obsolete, slang
Word: keelhauling Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From keelhaul + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈkiːlhɔːlɪŋ/, /ˈkiːlhɔlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of keelhaul. Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: skippering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of skipper Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spooking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of spook Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: spooking Part of Speech: noun 1. A supernatural fright. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Until her death Marie maintained that it was she and a few other fun-loving and lively girls who had started the spookings at the expense of the superstitious sisters. 2. The form of hole carding engaged in by a spook. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable
Word: squealing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of squeal Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: squealing Part of Speech: noun 1. The sound of one who squeals; a squeal.
Word: discrediting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of discredit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: discrediting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is discredited.
Word: redding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of redd Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cranking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of crank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cranking Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is cranked. Example: The engine temperature warning lamp should illuminate when the starter button is depressed. Do not depress Engine Start button for more than 15 seconds with two minute intervals between crankings.
Word: sloughing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of slough Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sloughing Part of Speech: noun 1. Something sloughed off. Example: As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal. 2. The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis. Example: If all sloughings were successfully recorded, which is not certain since rattle segments were not color-coded during this study, the interval between events averaged 246.1 days (1.5 sloughings per snake per year).
Word: smurfing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of smurf Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: smurfing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who smurfs. Labels: uncountable 2. A money laundering technique involving the break-up of large sums into smaller amounts, in order to fly under the regulatory radar. Labels: uncountable
Word: molesting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of molest Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cramping Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæmpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of cramp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cramping Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæmpɪŋ/ 1. The action of something that cramps. Example: There are also twitchings or crampings of the muscles to a greater or less extent — which, if not relieved, soon become general and exceedingly violent and painful.
Word: mongering Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. present participle and gerund of monger Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mongering Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English monger Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English mongering From monger + -ing. 1. Trading or peddling (typically, of a specified commodity). Labels: uncountable, usually Example: fishmongering 2. The spreading or promotion of a specified thing. Labels: figuratively, uncountable, usually Example: fearmongering, warmongering
Word: heralding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of herald Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: heralding Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is heralded. Example: There are many poetical charms in the heraldings of Christmas.
Word: exhorting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of exhort. Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: exhorting Part of Speech: noun 1. exhortation Example: […] their censorious outcries against the standing ministers and Churches in general, their Lay ordinations, their Lay preachings, and public exhortings, and administering Sacraments […]
Word: slobbering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of slobber Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: slobbering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who slobbers. Example: the slobberings of a hungry dog
Word: pavilioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pavilion Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: coiling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɪlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of coil Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: coiling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɪlɪŋ/ 1. The pattern or motion of something that coils. Example: Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!" 2. The process of fitting a ship with electromagnetic coils, so that it can be degaussed while travelling.
Word: brawling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of brawl Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: brawling Part of Speech: adj 1. prone to brawls; unruly; pugnacious
Word: brawling Part of Speech: noun 1. An unruly fight; a brawl. Example: Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen.
Word: yodeling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of yodel Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: yodeling Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who yodels. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: respraying Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of respray Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: respraying Part of Speech: noun 1. A second or subsequent spraying.
Word: wakening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of waken Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: wakening Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep.
Word: installing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of install Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: countering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of counter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: punting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈpʌntɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of punt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: inhibiting Part of Speech: adj Labels: no-gloss
Word: inhibiting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of inhibit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: prolonging Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of prolong Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: prolonging Part of Speech: noun 1. prolongation Example: the gradual prolongings of the whale's visible jets
Word: gmailing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of gmail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: whiffing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of whiff Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: whiffing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who, or that which, whiffs. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] 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. 2. A mode of fishing with a handline for pollock, mackerel, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: whimpering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of whimper Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: whimpering Part of Speech: noun 1. The sound of one who whimpers; a whimper; a feeble complaint. Example: 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. Example: As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.
Word: ganking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of gank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ganking Part of Speech: noun 1. Action of the verb to gank. Labels: Internet, countable, uncountable
Word: constraining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of constrain Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: 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.
Word: constraining Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is constrained. Example: 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.
Word: windmilling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of windmill Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: windmilling Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of milling with a windmill. Labels: uncountable Example: As windmilling became more and more marginal, so there was less money to keep the mills in repair […]
Word: head butting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of head butt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: head butting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of giving a headbutt. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: persisting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of persist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: persisting Part of Speech: noun 1. persistence Example: 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, […]
Word: distracting Part of Speech: adj 1. Causing a distraction; interfering with the ability to concentrate or focus. Example: 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. Example: 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). 2. Diverting
Word: distracting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of distract Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: cuckolding Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From cuckold + -ing. 1. The practice of making a man a cuckold, especially as a sexual kink. Example: 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.
Word: cuckolding Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From cuckold + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of cuckold Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: borking Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From bork + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːkiŋ/, /ˈbɔɹkiŋ/ 1. 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. Labels: US, ambitransitive, derogatory, often Example: 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.
Word: borking Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From bork + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːkiŋ/, /ˈbɔɹkiŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of bork. Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mothballing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mothball Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mothballing Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of something being mothballed: taken out of service and stored for possible later use. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: warping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English warpynge; equivalent to warp + -ing. 1. present participle and gerund of warp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: warping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English warpynge; equivalent to warp + -ing. 1. An action or motion that warps or twists. Example: 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[…] 2. the deformation of the Earth's crust over a large area 3. The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver. Example: 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 4. The practice of flooding agricultural land with turbid river water to add sediment to the soil.
Word: trysting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tryst Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: trysting Part of Speech: noun 1. An appointment; a tryst. Example: He confesses that even at trystings with a lady a third is always present.
Word: moulting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of moult Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: moulting Part of Speech: noun 1. A moult; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc.
Word: cravening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of craven Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sundering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sunder Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sundering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is sundered. Example: The sunderings of love affairs Example: Meta-philosophy is an antidote: it attempts to surmount separations and sunderings, tries to unite speculative philosophy and critical theory with political action.
Word: looping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of loop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: looping Part of Speech: noun 1. Something that loops; a looped pattern or action. 2. A loop (aerobatic maneuver). 3. The practice of having a teacher remain with the same group of students for more than one school year.
Word: looping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Compare Dutch loopen (“to run”). 1. The running together of ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.
Word: thwacking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of thwack Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: thwacking Part of Speech: noun 1. The action or sound of a thwack; a beating. Example: 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 […]
Word: flailing Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of flail Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: flailing Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪlɪŋ/ 1. A flailing action or motion. Example: The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention.
Word: flailing Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪlɪŋ/ 1. Having a lack of coordination, control, or successful outcome. Example: A flailing economy has left the country exposed to hyperinflation.
Word: encrusting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of encrust Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: munging Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of mung Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: munging Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈmʌnd͡ʒ.ɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of munge Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: budgeting Part of Speech: noun 1. The activity of constructing a budget. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: budgeting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of budget Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: conscripting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of conscript Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: heisting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪstɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of heist Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: mountebanking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of mountebank Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: weening Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English wening (“supposition, opinion, presumption, doubt”), from Old English wēning (“supposition, doubt, doubtful thought”), equivalent to ween + -ing. 1. Presumption, imagination, supposition. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] 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, […]
Word: weening Part of Speech: verb Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. 1. present participle and gerund of ween Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sepulchering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of sepulcher Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plummeting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plummet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plummeting Part of Speech: noun 1. A violent or dramatic fall.
Word: sniggering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of snigger Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: sniggering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who sniggers.
Word: clamping Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈklæmpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of clamp Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clamping Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈklæmpɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is clamped. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There are frequent clampings of cars that fail to display a parking permit.
Word: pioneering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pioneer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pioneering Part of Speech: adj 1. Involving accomplishments or activities that have not been done before, or developing or using new methods or techniques. Labels: not-comparable Example: Norway as a polar nation would not have been what it is today without their tireless pioneering efforts. Example: Lastly, and in line with the tradition of honoring a scientist, the name oganesson and symbol Og for element 118 was proposed by the collaborating teams of discoverers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russia) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) and recognizes Professor Yuri Oganessian (born 1933) for his pioneering contributions to transactinoid elements research.
Word: pioneering Part of Speech: noun 1. The activity of the verb pioneer. Labels: uncountable 2. A scoutcraft skill that involves building structures using staves and knots. Labels: uncountable
Word: interpreting Part of Speech: noun 1. Synonym of interpretation (an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure) Labels: countable Example: To put these statements in the singular, of course, is to abstract — there is always a plurality of interpretings when interpretation takes place. 2. Synonym of interpretation (the discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another) Labels: uncountable Example: The scholarship supporting translation and interpreting education necessarily entails discussions of assessment and there has been some encouraging work in this area. Example: Is there a theory of interpreting, or a set of distinct theories of interpreting?
Word: interpreting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of interpret Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: frisbeeing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of frisbee Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: ballyhooing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of ballyhoo Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lacquering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lacquer Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lacquering Part of Speech: noun 1. An application of lacquer.
Word: blighting Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈblaɪtɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of blight Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: blighting Part of Speech: adj Pronunciation: /ˈblaɪtɪŋ/ 1. Damned; pesky. Labels: UK, not-comparable, slang Example: "Mate," said the Cockney, after we'd finished about half the bottle, "it comes to me that we're a couple o' blightin' idjits to be workin' for a skirt.
Word: blighting Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈblaɪtɪŋ/ 1. The act by which something is blighted. Example: 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 […]
Word: shucking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of shuck Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: shucking Part of Speech: noun 1. Removal of a shuck; usually: 2. Removal of a shuck; usually: Example: We attended a corn shucking and two oyster shuckings.
Word: daydreaming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of daydream Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: daydreaming Part of Speech: noun 1. An instance of daydreaming; a daydream or reverie.
Word: interdicting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of interdict Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: hoovering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of cleaning using a vacuum cleaner. Labels: countable, informal, uncountable Example: Give your house a regular hoovering to prevent the build-up of dust.
Word: hoovering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of hoover Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: afflicting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of afflict Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: afflicting Part of Speech: noun 1. An affliction. Example: 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.
Word: molting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of molt Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: molting Part of Speech: noun 1. A molt; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc.
Word: soliciting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of solicit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: soliciting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who solicits. Example: 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[…]
Word: discomforting Part of Speech: adj 1. Causing discomfort. Example: After all, disorderliness can be very discomforting and dangerous. Example: 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.
Word: discomforting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of discomfort Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: tillering Part of Speech: noun 1. The property of grass species to produce multiple side shoots or tillers. Labels: uncountable 2. A side shoot or tiller. Labels: countable
Word: tillering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of tiller Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: RVing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of RV Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clewing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of clew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: coldcocking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of coldcock Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pandering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pander Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: packeting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of packet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: stanchioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of stanchion Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: refunding Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of refund Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: refunding Part of Speech: noun 1. The return of money paid; a refund. Example: 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 […]
Word: simpering Part of Speech: adj 1. Affected, smug, and supercilious. Example: Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug! Example: 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.
Word: simpering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of simper Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: simpering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who simpers. Example: 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[…]
Word: lumping Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree English lump Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English lumping From lump + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌmpɪŋ/ 1. Bulky; heavy. Example: a lumping great thing Example: 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.
Word: lumping Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree English lump Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English lumping From lump + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌmpɪŋ/ 1. gerund of lump: the act or result of lumping things together. Labels: form-of, gerund Example: The systems called descriptive have fewer such lumpings; the terminology which prevails in the United States today serves as an example.
Word: lumping Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Etymology tree English lump Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English lumping From lump + -ing. Pronunciation: /ˈlʌmpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of lump Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enlivening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enliven Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enlivening Part of Speech: noun 1. The process of making something more lively.
Word: environing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of environ Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: grilling Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪlɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of grill Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: grilling Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹɪlɪŋ/ 1. A thorough interrogation. Labels: informal Example: The minister faced a grilling over her handling of the situation. 2. The act or process of grilling, or broiling.
Word: enthralling Part of Speech: adj 1. exciting and absorbing Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: enthralling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of enthrall Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: renewing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of renew Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: renewing Part of Speech: noun 1. A renewal.
Word: renewing Part of Speech: adj 1. That renews someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy. Example: I am so sunk in the work’s psychology, I feel almost an alien, some renewing life form. Example: 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.
Word: bawling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bawl Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present Example: A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
Word: bawling Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who bawls or shouts. Example: E. F. Benson Nobody could call Major Flint, with his bawlings and his sniffings, the least mysterious.
Word: prospecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of prospect Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: prospecting Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of one who prospects. Example: 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.
Word: squandering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of squander Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: squandering Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is squandered; wastage. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] the squanderings and mismanagings of former Governments […]
Word: croqueting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of croquet Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: infecting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of infect Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plumping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of plump Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: plumping Part of Speech: noun 1. The act by which something is plumped. Example: They shew the swellings of their mind, in the swellings and plumpings out of their apparel.
Word: detaining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of detain Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: detaining Part of Speech: noun 1. A delay, hindrance, or impediment; the act of holding back. Example: The heavy rain was a detaining on their progress. 2. The act by which someone is detained; detention. Example: The suspect’s detaining lasted several hours.
Word: hafting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of haft Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: enveloping Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of envelop Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present 2. present participle and gerund of envelope Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: pawling Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of pawl Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: havening Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of haven Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: short circuiting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of short circuit Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: encountering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of encounter Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: encountering Part of Speech: noun 1. An encounter; a meeting. Example: 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.
Word: encountering Part of Speech: adj 1. Fit for an encounter or battle. Labels: obsolete Example: 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.
Word: facepalming Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of facepalm Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: bickering Part of Speech: adj 1. That bickers; argumentative.
Word: bickering Part of Speech: noun 1. Petty quarreling. Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: bickering Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of bicker Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: murking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of murk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: squawking Part of Speech: noun 1. Squawk, the sound of a squawk. Example: 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.
Word: squawking Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of squawk Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lambasting Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of lambast Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present 2. present participle and gerund of lambaste Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: lambasting Part of Speech: noun 1. A harsh reprimand. Example: 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. 2. A beating or thrashing.
Word: smearing Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of smear Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: smearing Part of Speech: noun 1. Something smeared or daubed.
Word: clumping Part of Speech: verb Pronunciation: /ˈklʌmpɪŋ/ 1. present participle and gerund of clump Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: clumping Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈklʌmpɪŋ/ 1. A clump or cluster. Example: 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. 2. The sound of walking with heavy footfalls. Example: Heavy backstair clumpings announce huge Ab, my negro paddler.
Word: outreaching Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of outreach Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: outreaching Part of Speech: noun 1. An act of reaching out. Example: 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[…]
Word: precautioning Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of precaution Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rejoining Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of rejoin Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: rejoining Part of Speech: noun 1. The act of joining again.