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ooking

ooking is the present participle and gerund of ook.

Meaning of ook

Verb

ook (third-person singular simple present ooks, present participle ooking, simple past and past participle ooked)

  1. (intransitive, onomatopoeic) To make the cry of an ape or monkey.
  2. (ethnic, intransitive, offensive, slang, slur) Of a black person: to speak gibberish or nonsense.
    • Starts ooking and eeking About Slavery, Racism, Hair Salons, etc!2012 August 19, Trending Now, “Huge Feral Nigger Sheboon Chimps Out at Gas Station”, in aus.politics (Usenet)

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Questions about ooking

What is ooking the present participle and gerund of?
Ooking is the present participle and gerund of ook.

Words near ooking in the dictionary

  1. ooked
  2. ookie cookie
  3. ookinete
  4. ookinetes
  5. ookinetic
  6. ooking
  7. Ookland
  8. OOKP
  9. ookpik
  10. ookpiks
  11. ookroo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ooking (page history and authors); ook (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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