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lilting up

lilting up is the present participle and gerund of lilt up.

Meaning of lilt up

Verb

lilt up (third-person singular simple present lilts up, present participle lilting up, simple past and past participle lilted up)

  1. (transitive) To start playing (music); to strike up (a tune, song, etc.).
    • "[A]nd divil be in Tim, when he h'ard it but he lilts up the 'Priest in his Boots;' and, God forgive us, we all burst out laughin', for shure who could hilp it, if it was the bishop himsilf?"1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 518

Questions about lilting up

What is lilting up the present participle and gerund of?
Lilting up is the present participle and gerund of lilt up.

Words near lilting up in the dictionary

  1. lilt
  2. lilt up
  3. lilted
  4. lilted up
  5. lilting
  6. lilting up
  7. liltingly
  8. liltingness
  9. liltings
  10. lilts
  11. lilts up

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