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folk-etymologizing

folk-etymologizing is the present participle and gerund of folk-etymologize.

Meaning of folk-etymologize

Verb

folk-etymologize (third-person singular simple present folk-etymologizes, present participle folk-etymologizing, simple past and past participle folk-etymologized)

  1. (intransitive) To introduce or develop a folk etymology.
  2. (transitive) To explain the etymology of a word as folk etymology.

Questions about folk-etymologizing

What is folk-etymologizing the present participle and gerund of?
Folk-etymologizing is the present participle and gerund of folk-etymologize.

Words near folk-etymologizing in the dictionary

  1. folk-etymological
  2. folk-etymologically
  3. folk-etymologize
  4. folk-etymologized
  5. folk-etymologizes
  6. folk-etymologizing
  7. folk-healer
  8. folk-hero
  9. folk-heroes
  10. folk-like
  11. folk-lore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: folk-etymologizing (page history and authors); folk-etymologize (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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