haring
haring is the present participle and gerund of hare.
Meaning of hare
Verb (1)
hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)
Verb (2)
hare (third-person singular simple present hares, present participle haring, simple past and past participle hared)
- To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
- To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex, and torment them to no purpoſe.1693, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Proper noun capitalized: Haring
Haring (countable and uncountable, plural Harings)
- A surname.
- A township and census-designated place therein, in Wexford County, Michigan, United States.
Forms of haring
| plural | Harings |
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Origin of haring
From the Dutch and German surname from Middle Low German harinc (“herring”).
Questions about haring
- What does haring mean?
- Haring means a surname.
- What is haring the present participle and gerund of?
- Haring is the present participle and gerund of hare.
- What part of speech is haring?
- Haring is a proper noun.
Words near haring in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: haring (page history and authors); Haring (page history and authors); hare (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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