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doughnuting

doughnuting is the present participle and gerund of doughnut.

Meaning of doughnut

Verb

doughnut (third-person singular simple present doughnuts, present participle doughnutting or doughnuting, simple past and past participle doughnutted or doughnuted)

  1. To encircle something.
    • […] even the notorious ‘doughnuting’ (gathering around the Member speaking) appears to have fallen out of fashion.1995, F[rederick] F[ernand] Ridley, Michael Rush, editors, British Government and Politics Since 1945: Changes in Perspective, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 163

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Questions about doughnuting

What is doughnuting the present participle and gerund of?
Doughnuting is the present participle and gerund of doughnut.

Words near doughnuting in the dictionary

  1. doughnuteria
  2. doughnuterias
  3. doughnuteries
  4. doughnutery
  5. Doughnutgate
  6. doughnuting
  7. doughnutless
  8. doughnutlike
  9. doughnuts
  10. doughnutted
  11. doughnutteries

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