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lobtailing

lobtailing is the present participle and gerund of lobtail.

Meaning of lobtail

Verb

lobtail (third-person singular simple present lobtails, present participle lobtailing, simple past and past participle lobtailed)

  1. To raise the flukes out of the water and then slap them down against the water surface.

Noun

lobtailing (plural lobtailings)

  1. (rare) The action of a whale when it lobtails.
    • The researchers witnessed three lobtailings and two breaches.

Forms of lobtailing

plurallobtailings

Questions about lobtailing

What does lobtailing mean?
Lobtailing means the action of a whale when it lobtails.
What is lobtailing the present participle and gerund of?
Lobtailing is the present participle and gerund of lobtail.
What part of speech is lobtailing?
Lobtailing is a noun.
What is the plural of lobtailing?
The plural of lobtailing is lobtailings.

Words near lobtailing in the dictionary

  1. lobstery
  2. lobstick
  3. lobsticks
  4. lobtail
  5. lobtailed
  6. lobtailing
  7. lobtailings
  8. lobtails
  9. lobucavir
  10. Lobue
  11. Lobues

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lobtailing (page history and authors); lobtail (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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