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ewwing

ewwing is the present participle and gerund of ew.

ewwing is the present participle and gerund of eww.

Meaning of ew

Verb

ew (third-person singular simple present ews, present participle ewwing, simple past and past participle ewwed)

  1. (ambitransitive, colloquial, rare) To express disgust (at someone or something) by saying ew.
    • “Brad went into a seething rage, as you do,” said Jack “and followed Harvey out of the restaurant, down the road and …” / “… Killed him with a muttonbird,” added Matahina / “A brick, then a muttonbird,” corrected Jack, to her horror. / “Ew!” she ewwed.2012, Simon Dodd, Death by Muttonbird: A Lord Howe Island Murder Mystery, Sydney, N.S.W.: DBMB Publishing, →ISBN, page 201

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Meaning of eww

Interjection

  1. Elongated form of ew.

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Questions about ewwing

What is ewwing the present participle and gerund of?
Ewwing is the present participle and gerund of ew.

Words near ewwing in the dictionary

  1. ewts
  2. EWU
  3. eww
  4. ewwed
  5. ewwie
  6. ewwing
  7. ewwphoria
  8. ewws
  9. ewwy
  10. ewy
  11. Ewyas Harold

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ewwing (page history and authors); ew (page history and authors); eww (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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