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nutcracking

nutcracking is the present participle and gerund of nutcrack.

Meaning of nutcrack

Verb

nutcrack (third-person singular simple present nutcracks, present participle nutcracking, simple past and past participle nutcracked)

  1. To crack nuts for food.
    • Marshall-Pescini and Whiten noticed that Baluku performed cracking actions in the air while watching the demonstrator nutcrack […]2012 Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello "Untrained Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Fail to Imitate Novel Actions" PLos ONE

Questions about nutcracking

What is nutcracking the present participle and gerund of?
Nutcracking is the present participle and gerund of nutcrack.

Words near nutcracking in the dictionary

  1. nutcracker
  2. nutcracker doll
  3. nutcracker phenomenon
  4. nutcracker syndrome
  5. nutcrackers
  6. nutcracking
  7. nutdriver
  8. nutdrivers
  9. Nute
  10. Nutella
  11. nutellasagna

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