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daggering

daggering noun: a stab from, or as if from, a dagger. Also the present participle and gerund of dagger.

Noun

daggering (countable and uncountable, plural daggerings)

  1. A stab from, or as if from, a dagger.
  2. A type of dance associated with dancehall, where dancers simulate dry sex to the musical beat.
    • She also submitted herself to daggering, the shameless, controversial dancehall dance maneuver that involves rapid-fire pelvic thrusts.2009 September 7, Jon Caramanica, “A Dose of Raunch on a Night of Stars, Shtick and Slapstick”, in New York Times

Also used as

daggering is also the present participle and gerund of dagger.

Forms of daggering

pluraldaggerings

Questions about daggering

What does daggering mean?
Daggering means a stab from, or as if from, a dagger.
What part of speech is daggering?
Daggering is a noun.
What is the plural of daggering?
The plural of daggering is daggerings.

Words near daggering in the dictionary

  1. daggerblade grass shrimps
  2. daggerblades
  3. daggerboard
  4. daggerboards
  5. daggered
  6. daggering
  7. daggerings
  8. daggerless
  9. daggerlike
  10. daggerman
  11. daggermen

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