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headdesking

headdesking is the present participle and gerund of headdesk.

Meaning of headdesk

Verb

headdesk (third-person singular simple present headdesks, present participle headdesking, simple past and past participle headdesked)

  1. (slang) To bang one's head against the desk in frustration; (by extension) to express annoyance or exasperation.
    • Hopefully this will save someone else some head-desking; I'll see about writing up a patch for the docs describing this (unless I discover that I've been blind and this is, indeed, documented somewhere). :-D2006 August 8, Tom Tobin, “Re: MR: _manipulator_validate_FIELD() methods?”, in django-users (Usenet), retrieved 08 Feb 2017, message-ID <1fb3de5c0608081824j766463g52e109c405b18105@mail.gmail.com>

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Questions about headdesking

What is headdesking the present participle and gerund of?
Headdesking is the present participle and gerund of headdesk.

Words near headdesking in the dictionary

  1. headcrests
  2. headcut
  3. headcuts
  4. headdesk
  5. headdesked
  6. headdesking
  7. headdesks
  8. headdress
  9. headdressed
  10. headdresses
  11. headectomies

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