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gumshoeing

gumshoeing is the present participle and gerund of gumshoe.

Meaning of gumshoe

Verb

gumshoe (third-person singular simple present gumshoes, present participle gumshoeing, simple past and past participle gumshoed)

  1. (slang) To act as a detective.
    • The next thing they did was to send a man sent down there from Baltimore and he spent a good deal of time gumshoeing around in that county trying to get another individual put in as secretary-treasurer.1933, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Hearings, page 25

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Questions about gumshoeing

What is gumshoeing the present participle and gerund of?
Gumshoeing is the present participle and gerund of gumshoe.

Words near gumshoeing in the dictionary

  1. gums up the works
  2. gumshield
  3. gumshields
  4. gumshoe
  5. gumshoed
  6. gumshoeing
  7. gumshoes
  8. gumsucker
  9. gumsuckers
  10. Gumti
  11. gumtree

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gumshoeing (page history and authors); gumshoe (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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