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ferreting about

ferreting about is the present participle and gerund of ferret about.

Meaning of ferret about

Verb

ferret about (third-person singular simple present ferrets about, present participle ferreting about, simple past and past participle ferreted about)

  1. Synonym of ferret around.
    Synonyms:
    ferret around

Questions about ferreting about

What is ferreting about the present participle and gerund of?
Ferreting about is the present participle and gerund of ferret about.

Words near ferreting about in the dictionary

  1. ferreted around
  2. ferreted out
  3. ferreter
  4. ferreters
  5. ferreting
  6. ferreting about
  7. ferreting around
  8. ferreting out
  9. ferretings
  10. Ferretiz
  11. Ferretizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ferreting about (page history and authors); ferret about (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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