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anythinging

anythinging is the present participle and gerund of anything.

Meaning of anything

Verb

anything (third-person singular simple present anythings, present participle anythinging, simple past and past participle anythinged)

  1. (ambitransitive, colloquial) Used as a placeholder verb for any verb out of a set of related verbs.
    • He wasn't cooking, he wasn't sweeping, he wasn't anythinging!

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Questions about anythinging

What is anythinging the present participle and gerund of?
Anythinging is the present participle and gerund of anything.

Words near anythinging in the dictionary

  1. anything that moves
  2. anythingarian
  3. anythingarianism
  4. anythingarians
  5. anythinged
  6. anythinging
  7. anythingism
  8. anythings
  9. anythink
  10. anytime
  11. anytime now

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anythinging (page history and authors); anything (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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