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ear-tagging

ear-tagging is the present participle and gerund of ear-tag.

Meaning of ear-tag

Verb

ear-tag (third-person singular simple present ear-tags, present participle ear-tagging, simple past and past participle ear-tagged)

  1. to attach an ear tag to the ear of an animal.

Questions about ear-tagging

What is ear-tagging the present participle and gerund of?
Ear-tagging is the present participle and gerund of ear-tag.

Words near ear-tagging in the dictionary

  1. ear-splittingly
  2. ear-spoon
  3. ear-spoons
  4. ear-tag
  5. ear-tagged
  6. ear-tagging
  7. ear-tags
  8. ear-trumpet
  9. ear-trumpets
  10. ear-wax
  11. ear-worm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ear-tagging (page history and authors); ear-tag (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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