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cowhiding

cowhiding is the present participle and gerund of cowhide.

Meaning of cowhide

Verb

cowhide (third-person singular simple present cowhides, present participle cowhiding, simple past and past participle cowhided)

  1. (transitive) To flog with a cowhide.

See all 5 meanings of cowhide

Noun

cowhiding (plural cowhidings)

  1. A flogging with a cowhide.
    • The apprenticeship of the Prussian Crown Princes has always consisted in receiving fisticuffs and cowhidings from their progenitor, the king.2021, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Forms of cowhiding

pluralcowhidings

Questions about cowhiding

What does cowhiding mean?
Cowhiding means a flogging with a cowhide.
What is cowhiding the present participle and gerund of?
Cowhiding is the present participle and gerund of cowhide.
What part of speech is cowhiding?
Cowhiding is a noun.
What is the plural of cowhiding?
The plural of cowhiding is cowhidings.

Words near cowhiding in the dictionary

  1. cowherds
  2. Cowhers
  3. cowhide
  4. cowhided
  5. cowhides
  6. cowhiding
  7. cowhidings
  8. cowhorse
  9. cowhorses
  10. cowhouse
  11. cowhouses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cowhiding (page history and authors); cowhide (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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