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mascoting

mascoting is the present participle and gerund of mascot.

Meaning of mascot

Verb

mascot (third-person singular simple present mascots, present participle mascoting, simple past and past participle mascoted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To act as a mascot (for).
    • The seniors were “mascoted” by two little girls dressed in green dresses […]1908, The Mount Holyoke, volume 18, page 533

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Questions about mascoting

What is mascoting the present participle and gerund of?
Mascoting is the present participle and gerund of mascot.

Words near mascoting in the dictionary

  1. mascot
  2. mascot horror
  3. Mascote
  4. mascoted
  5. Mascotes
  6. mascoting
  7. mascotism
  8. mascotry
  9. mascots
  10. mascotte
  11. mascottes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mascoting (page history and authors); mascot (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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