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Groundhog Daying

Groundhog Daying is the present participle and gerund of Groundhog Day.

Meaning of Groundhog Day

Verb

Groundhog Day (third-person singular simple present Groundhog Days, present participle Groundhog Daying, simple past and past participle Groundhog Dayed)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To live out a situation in which events appear to be repeating themselves in a cyclical fashion.
    • When Dis told her about groundhog daying, named after the old movie, she'd underestimated the way the experience would play out for her, going through the same conversations over again, trying different gambits but ending up in the same[…]2017 April 25, Cory Doctorow, Walkaway, Head of Zeus Ltd, →ISBN

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Questions about Groundhog Daying

What is Groundhog Daying the present participle and gerund of?
Groundhog Daying is the present participle and gerund of Groundhog Day.

Words near Groundhog Daying in the dictionary

  1. groundgames
  2. groundhandling
  3. groundhog
  4. Groundhog Day
  5. Groundhog Dayed
  6. Groundhog Daying
  7. Groundhog Days
  8. Groundhog Lodge
  9. Groundhog Lodges
  10. groundhog punch
  11. Groundhog's Day

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Groundhog Daying (page history and authors); Groundhog Day (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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