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hawming

hawming is the present participle and gerund of hawm.

Meaning of hawm

Verb

hawm (third-person singular simple present hawms, present participle hawming, simple past and past participle hawmed)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) To lounge; to loiter.
    • Guzzlin' an' soäkin' an' smoäkin' an' hawmin' about i' the laanes, […]1880, Tennyson, Ballads and Other Poems, The Northern Cobbler

Questions about hawming

What is hawming the present participle and gerund of?
Hawming is the present participle and gerund of hawm.

Words near hawming in the dictionary

  1. hawleyite
  2. Hawleys
  3. Hawling
  4. hawm
  5. hawmed
  6. hawming
  7. hawms
  8. hawn
  9. hawns
  10. hawock
  11. hawok

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hawming (page history and authors); hawm (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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