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cupboarding

cupboarding is the present participle and gerund of cupboard.

Meaning of cupboard

Verb

cupboard (third-person singular simple present cupboards, present participle cupboarding, simple past and past participle cupboarded)

  1. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
    • There was a time, when all the bodies members / Rebell'd againſt the Belly; thus accus'd it: / That onely like a Gulfe it did remaine / I'th midd'ſt a th'body, idle and vnactiue, / Still cubbording the Viand, neuer bearing / Like labour with the reſt, where th'other Inſtruments / Did ſee, and...1613, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac...

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Questions about cupboarding

What is cupboarding the present participle and gerund of?
Cupboarding is the present participle and gerund of cupboard.

Words near cupboarding in the dictionary

  1. cupboard-man
  2. cupboard-men
  3. cupboarded
  4. cupboardful
  5. cupboardfuls
  6. cupboarding
  7. cupboardless
  8. cupboardlike
  9. cupboards
  10. cupboardsful
  11. cupboardwise

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