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garlicking

garlicking is the present participle and gerund of garlic.

Meaning of garlic

Verb

garlic (third-person singular simple present garlics, present participle garlicking, simple past and past participle garlicked)

  1. (transitive) To flavor with garlic.
    • […]then through the sunned gathering of her marjoram and sweet basil from the herb garden, reading of book reviews in the latest Scientific American, into the layering of a lasagna, garlicking of a bread, tearing up of romaine leaves, eventually, oven on, into the mixing of the twilight's whisky...1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 1, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 2

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Questions about garlicking

What is garlicking the present participle and gerund of?
Garlicking is the present participle and gerund of garlic.

Words near garlicking in the dictionary

  1. garlicke
  2. garlicked
  3. garlickier
  4. garlickiest
  5. garlickiness
  6. garlicking
  7. garlicks
  8. garlicky
  9. garlicless
  10. garliclike
  11. garlicmonger

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