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copycatting

copycatting is the present participle and gerund of copycat.

Meaning of copycat

Verb

copycat (third-person singular simple present copycats, present participle copycatting, simple past and past participle copycatted)

  1. (transitive) To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way.
    • Because beasts don't talk with words, they talk with sounds, and I copycatted my language from beasts and birds[…]1910, Gouverneur Morris, “Targets”, in The Spread Eagle and Other Stories

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Questions about copycatting

What is copycatting the present participle and gerund of?
Copycatting is the present participle and gerund of copycat.

Words near copycatting in the dictionary

  1. copycatted
  2. copycatter
  3. copycatteries
  4. copycatters
  5. copycattery
  6. copycatting
  7. copydesk
  8. copydesks
  9. copydom
  10. copyedit
  11. copyedited

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copycatting (page history and authors); copycat (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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