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blaking

blaking is the present participle and gerund of blake.

Meaning of blake

Adjective

blake (comparative blaker or more blake, superlative blakest or most blake)

  1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal, poetic, uncommon) Yellow, as butter or cheese.
    • White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]1747, Josiah Relph, A Miscellany of Poems,: Consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, page 13

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Questions about blaking

What is blaking the present participle and gerund of?
Blaking is the present participle and gerund of blake.

Words near blaking in the dictionary

  1. Blakespear
  2. blakest
  3. Blakeville
  4. blakey
  5. blakeys
  6. blaking
  7. blakker
  8. blakkest
  9. blakkness
  10. Blakley
  11. Blakleys

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