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ligging

ligging is the present participle and gerund of lig.

Meaning of lig

Verb

lig (third-person singular simple present ligs, present participle ligging, simple past ligged or lag or lay, past participle ligged or lag or lay or laggen or lain)

  1. (Cumbria, Yorkshire, intransitive) To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
    • His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (Cumbria, Yorkshire, transitive) To lay.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To be a ligger or hanger-on; to freeload.
    • […] but within the confines of the music business it means the pinnacle of a career dedicated to ligging […]1991, Blues & Soul, numbers 589-601, page 32

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Questions about ligging

What is ligging the present participle and gerund of?
Ligging is the present participle and gerund of lig.

Words near ligging in the dictionary

  1. ligger
  2. liggerati
  3. liggers
  4. Liggett
  5. Liggetts
  6. ligging
  7. light
  8. light a fire under
  9. light academia
  10. light aeon
  11. light aeons

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