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howdying

howdying is the present participle and gerund of howdy.

Meaning of howdy

Verb

howdy (third-person singular simple present howdies, present participle howdying, simple past and past participle howdied)

  1. (transitive) To greet informally, especially by saying "howdy"
    • I stood up for the kid and it got ugly, with accusations being thrown in both directions. So the sheriff and I weren't exactly on howdying terms when that fire happened.2016, Brynn Bonner, Dead in a Flash, page 249

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Questions about howdying

What is howdying the present participle and gerund of?
Howdying is the present participle and gerund of howdy.

Words near howdying in the dictionary

  1. howdunnits
  2. howdy
  3. howdy doody
  4. howdy-do
  5. howdy-dos
  6. howdying
  7. Howdyshell
  8. Howdyshells
  9. howe
  10. Howe Bridge
  11. Howe Sound

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Adapted from Wiktionary: howdying (page history and authors); howdy (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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