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picking flowers

picking flowers is the present participle and gerund of pick flowers.

Meaning of pick flowers

Verb

pick flowers (third-person singular simple present picks flowers, present participle picking flowers, simple past and past participle picked flowers)

  1. (euphemistic) To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, flowers.

Questions about picking flowers

What is picking flowers the present participle and gerund of?
Picking flowers is the present participle and gerund of pick flowers.

Words near picking flowers in the dictionary

  1. picking bids off the wall
  2. picking by SKU
  3. picking corners
  4. picking fault
  5. picking fights
  6. picking flowers
  7. picking from a hat
  8. picking gooseberry
  9. picking holes
  10. picking it up
  11. picking oakum

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