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noing

noing is the present participle and gerund of no.

Meaning of no

Verb

no (third-person singular simple present noes, present participle noing, simple past and past participle noed)

  1. (colloquial, intransitive) To say “no”.
    • She felt disquiet at these tales of Musa’s illicit activities. ‘Does your father know?’ / ‘My father always noes. He never yeses. Specially when he’s sick, then he noes all the time. I gotta get out. Can’t stick around the house with him yelling.[…]’1983, Sasha Moorsom, chapter 5, in In the Shadow of the Paradise Tree, London; Melbourne, Vic.; Henley-on-Thame, Oxfordshire: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →ISBN, page 80
  2. (colloquial, transitive) To answer with “no”; to decline, reject.
    • Never accustom yourself to say ‘Yes,’—practise an emphatic and decisive enunciation of the far more dignified and important monosyllable, ‘No.’ […] Believe me, it is of the utmost importance (the advice is not of recent date) that you should No the world.1835 April, “The Whimsey Papers.—No. II. Vague Conclusions Concerning Selfishness and Benevolence—Vivid the Casuist—Skinflint the Misanthrope—Green, the Good-Natured Man.”, in [Caroline Norton]...

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Questions about noing

What is noing the present participle and gerund of?
Noing is the present participle and gerund of no.

Words near noing in the dictionary

  1. noight
  2. noights
  3. noil
  4. noils
  5. noily
  6. noing
  7. noint
  8. nointed
  9. nointer
  10. nointers
  11. nointing

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