duetting

Verb

duet (third-person singular simple present duets, present participle duetting or dueting, simple past and past participle duetted or dueted)

1. (intransitive) To perform a duet.
   • When you can spare time from duetting, coquetting, and claretting with your Hibernians of both sexes, let me have a line from you.1822, Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Moore, Pisa, July 12, 1822, in The Letters of George Gordon Byron, edited by Mathilde Blind, London: Walter Scott, 1887, p. 277...
2. (intransitive) To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
   • Duetting species are typically monogamous.1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Belknap Press, p. 223
3. (transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
   • Peena and Queena are duetting a giggle-for-giggle […]1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC
4. (transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
   • “My dear papa!” duetted the girls; but there was something in the husband and father's face, that told the three ladies it would be worse than useless to raise that question at present.1864, Charles Whitehead, “The Stock-Broker”, in Heads of the People: or, Portraits of the English, volume I, London: Henry G. Bohn, page 23

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