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badding

badding is the present participle and gerund of bad.

Meaning of bad

Verb

bad (third-person singular simple present bads, present participle badding, simple past and past participle badded)

  1. (UK, dialectal, slang, transitive) To shell (a walnut).
    • A curious specimen of Gloucestershire dialect came out in an assault case heard by the Gloucester court magistrates on Saturday. One of the witnesses, speaking of what a girl was doing at the time the assault took place, said she was ‘badding’ walnuts in a pigstye. The word is peculiarly...1876, The Gloucester Journal, Oct. 7, 1876, reported in A. Gregory, “Gloucestershire Dialect,” Notes and Queries, 5th ser., 6, 148 (1876‑10‑28): 346

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Phrases with badding

Questions about badding

What is badding the present participle and gerund of?
Badding is the present participle and gerund of bad.

Words near badding in the dictionary

  1. baddest
  2. Baddidarach
  3. baddie
  4. baddies
  5. Baddiley
  6. badding
  7. badding up
  8. baddish
  9. baddishness
  10. badditude
  11. baddy

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