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hand-holding

hand-holding is the alternative form of handholding.

Meaning of handholding

Noun

handholding (countable and uncountable, plural handholdings)

  1. The holding of hands.
    • “I want to fuck gender. What does that mean? It means taking gender, a beautiful, wonderful thing and rockin it just right. Most cisfolk, they're stuck holding hands. And that's not to say no cisfolk fuck gender, or that hand holding isn't its own amazing thing. […]”2010 Spring, “The Queerest Art: Genderf*ck”, in OutWrite Newsmagazine, University of California, Los Angeles, page 7
  2. Strong personal support or reassurance.

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Questions about hand-holding

What is hand-holding the alternative form of?
Hand-holding is the alternative form of handholding.

Words near hand-holding in the dictionary

  1. hand-hoe
  2. hand-hoed
  3. hand-hoeing
  4. hand-hoes
  5. hand-hold
  6. hand-holding
  7. hand-holds
  8. hand-hole
  9. hand-holes
  10. hand-in-cap
  11. hand-in-glove

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