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anecdoting

anecdoting is the present participle and gerund of anecdote.

Meaning of anecdote

Verb

anecdote (third-person singular simple present anecdotes, present participle anecdoting, simple past and past participle anecdoted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To tell anecdotes (about).
    • They were all men of the same set, knowing one another intimately, and knowing the same people; so they fell to talking and anecdoting in such pleasant wise that dinner-time approached […]1879, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, That Artful Vicar

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Questions about anecdoting

What is anecdoting the present participle and gerund of?
Anecdoting is the present participle and gerund of anecdote.

Words near anecdoting in the dictionary

  1. anecdotes
  2. anecdotic
  3. anecdotical
  4. anecdotically
  5. anecdotics
  6. anecdoting
  7. anecdotish
  8. anecdotism
  9. anecdotist
  10. anecdotists
  11. anecdotive

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anecdoting (page history and authors); anecdote (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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