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doing one's ease

doing one's ease is the present participle and gerund of do one's ease.

Meaning of do one's ease

Verb

do one's ease (third-person singular simple present does one's ease, present participle doing one's ease, simple past did one's ease, past participle done one's ease)

  1. (euphemistic, obsolete) To ease one's bowels; to defecate.
    • Another time, the old Duke of Main, who was uſed to play the drol with him, coming ſoftly into his Bedchamber, and thruſting in his Bald-head, and Long-neck, in a poſture to make the King merry, it happened the King was come from doing his Eaſe, and ſpying him, he took the round Cover of the...1620 May 21 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XVIII. To Sir James Crofts, from Paris.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […]...

Questions about doing one's ease

What is doing one's ease the present participle and gerund of?
Doing one's ease is the present participle and gerund of do one's ease.

Words near doing one's ease in the dictionary

  1. doing one's bit
  2. doing one's business
  3. doing one's damnedest
  4. doing one's darnedest
  5. doing one's duty
  6. doing one's ease
  7. doing one's easement
  8. doing one's homework
  9. doing one's job
  10. doing one's own thing
  11. doing one's own time

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