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hoatching

hoatching adjective: infested; swarming; teeming.

Adjective

hoatching

  1. (Scotland, usually) Infested; swarming; teeming.
    • "Isn't the haill country hoatching with disbanded sojers, men with guns and swords that haven't been paid for months, that'll cut a throat for a couple of maiks?"2003, Robin Jenkins, Lady Magdalen, →ISBN, page 317
    • So in 1651, at the age of 16, his adventure began when he took ship from Aberdeen to Danzig, and even on the first leg of his journey to Königsberg, he quickly realised that the country was hoatching with his fellow countrymen.2011, Billy Kay, The Scottish World: A Journey Into the Scottish Diaspora, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    overrun

Synonyms of hoatching

Questions about hoatching

What does hoatching mean?
Hoatching means infested; swarming; teeming.
What part of speech is hoatching?
Hoatching is an adjective.

Words near hoatching in the dictionary

  1. hoasted
  2. hoasting
  3. hoastman
  4. hoastmen
  5. hoasts
  6. hoatching
  7. Hoath
  8. hoatzin
  9. hoatzins
  10. hoax
  11. hoaxable

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