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packratting

packratting is the present participle and gerund of packrat.

Meaning of packrat

Verb

packrat (third-person singular simple present packrats, present participle packratting, simple past and past participle packratted)

  1. (ambitransitive, colloquial) To hoard things.

Questions about packratting

What is packratting the present participle and gerund of?
Packratting is the present participle and gerund of packrat.

Words near packratting in the dictionary

  1. packrafts
  2. packrat
  3. packrats
  4. packratted
  5. packrattery
  6. packratting
  7. packs
  8. packs a lunch
  9. packs a sad
  10. packs a wallop
  11. packs away

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Adapted from Wiktionary: packratting (page history and authors); packrat (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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