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foghorning

foghorning is the present participle and gerund of foghorn.

Meaning of foghorn

Verb

foghorn (third-person singular simple present foghorns, present participle foghorning, simple past and past participle foghorned)

  1. To sound a foghorn
    • With the gold evening sun burnishing our strings of signal bunting we foghorned our way up the confidently prosperous quayside of Haugesund2013, Tim Moore, Frost on my Moustache: The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a a Loafer
  2. To shout or bellow in a loud, deep voice
    • the voice of the teacher foghorned away undisturbed1924, Frank Watts, Abnormal Psychology and Education

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Questions about foghorning

What is foghorning the present participle and gerund of?
Foghorning is the present participle and gerund of foghorn.

Words near foghorning in the dictionary

  1. foggite
  2. foggy
  3. Foggy Bottom
  4. foghorn
  5. foghorned
  6. foghorning
  7. foghorns
  8. fogie
  9. fogies
  10. foglamp
  11. foglamps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foghorning (page history and authors); foghorn (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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