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footing up

footing up is the present participle and gerund of foot up.

Meaning of foot up

Verb

foot up (third-person singular simple present foots up, present participle footing up, simple past and past participle footed up)

  1. (figuratively, sometimes) To add up; to calculate.
    • He had knocked over my girl, I had got to fix him for it; and I lay there and gritted my teeth, and footed up the chances. My leg was broke, my gun was gone. Case had still ten shots in his Winchester. It looked a kind of hopeless business.1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

Questions about footing up

What is footing up the present participle and gerund of?
Footing up is the present participle and gerund of foot up.

Words near footing up in the dictionary

  1. footies
  2. footin'
  3. footing
  4. footing it
  5. footing the bill
  6. footing up
  7. footings
  8. footjob
  9. footjobs
  10. footkisser
  11. footkissers

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