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)
- 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>
Questions about headdesking
- What is headdesking the present participle and gerund of?
- Headdesking is the present participle and gerund of headdesk.
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