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pinky swearing

pinky swearing is the present participle and gerund of pinky swear.

Meaning of pinky swear

Verb

pinky swear (third-person singular simple present pinky swears, present participle pinky swearing, simple past pinky swore, past participle pinky sworn)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To swear (promise) to (someone) with the pinky fingers entwined.
    Synonyms:
    pinky promise

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Questions about pinky swearing

What is pinky swearing the present participle and gerund of?
Pinky swearing is the present participle and gerund of pinky swear.

Words near pinky swearing in the dictionary

  1. pinky promised
  2. pinky promises
  3. pinky promising
  4. pinky swear
  5. pinky sweared
  6. pinky swearing
  7. pinky swears
  8. pinky swore
  9. pinky sworn
  10. pinky toe
  11. pinky toes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinky swearing (page history and authors); pinky swear (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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