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degging

degging is the present participle and gerund of deg.

Meaning of deg

Verb

deg (third-person singular simple present degs, present participle degging, simple past and past participle degged)

  1. (Northern England, dialectal) To sprinkle, moisten.
    • Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.1881, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 53

Questions about degging

What is degging the present participle and gerund of?
Degging is the present participle and gerund of deg.

Words near degging in the dictionary

  1. degerms
  2. Degersheim
  3. Degeyter
  4. degged
  5. Deggial
  6. degging
  7. deghan
  8. Deghand
  9. deghans
  10. deghettoization
  11. deghettoize

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