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bad-talking

bad-talking is the present participle and gerund of bad-talk.

Meaning of bad-talk

Verb

bad-talk (third-person singular simple present bad-talks, present participle bad-talking, simple past and past participle bad-talked)

  1. (Caribbean, Jamaica) To disparage something, or to speak maliciously about someone.

Questions about bad-talking

What is bad-talking the present participle and gerund of?
Bad-talking is the present participle and gerund of bad-talk.

Words near bad-talking in the dictionary

  1. bad-mouthing
  2. bad-mouths
  3. bad-natured
  4. bad-talk
  5. bad-talked
  6. bad-talking
  7. bad-talks
  8. bad-tempered
  9. bad-temperedly
  10. bad-temperedness
  11. bada bing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bad-talking (page history and authors); bad-talk (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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