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nepping

nepping is the present participle and gerund of nep.

Meaning of nep

Verb

nep (third-person singular simple present neps, present participle nepping, simple past and past participle nepped)

  1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) Of cotton: to form knots.

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Questions about nepping

What is nepping the present participle and gerund of?
Nepping is the present participle and gerund of nep.

Words near nepping in the dictionary

  1. nepoviral
  2. nepovirus
  3. nepoviruses
  4. nepped
  5. neppiness
  6. nepping
  7. neppy
  8. Nepram
  9. neprilysin
  10. neprilysins
  11. nepropathy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nepping (page history and authors); nep (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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