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huggering

huggering is the present participle and gerund of hugger.

Meaning of hugger

Verb

hugger (third-person singular simple present huggers, present participle huggering, simple past and past participle huggered)

  1. (obsolete) To conceal; to lurk in ambush.
    • Such a one they saw there lyrkinge and huggeringe two houres before.1567, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors

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Questions about huggering

What is huggering the present participle and gerund of?
Huggering is the present participle and gerund of hugger.

Words near huggering in the dictionary

  1. hugger-muggered
  2. hugger-muggering
  3. hugger-muggers
  4. hugger-muggery
  5. huggered
  6. huggering
  7. huggermugger
  8. huggermuggery
  9. huggers
  10. huggest
  11. Huggett

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Adapted from Wiktionary: huggering (page history and authors); hugger (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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