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devvelling

devvelling is the present participle and gerund of devvel.

Meaning of devvel

Verb

devvel (third-person singular simple present devvels, present participle devvelling, simple past and past participle devvelled)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To hit (something) hard.
  2. (Scotland, transitive) To stun (someone) by hitting.

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Questions about devvelling

What is devvelling the present participle and gerund of?
Devvelling is the present participle and gerund of devvel.

Words near devvelling in the dictionary

  1. devulgarized
  2. devulgarizes
  3. devulgarizing
  4. devvel
  5. devvelled
  6. devvelling
  7. devvels
  8. devvoed
  9. devvy
  10. Devyani
  11. Devyn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: devvelling (page history and authors); devvel (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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