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plimming

plimming is the present participle and gerund of plim.

Meaning of plim

Verb

plim (third-person singular simple present plims, present participle plimming, simple past and past participle plimmed)

  1. (South-Wales) To swell or inflate; to fill up.
    • "Don't that make your bosom plim?"1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 32

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Questions about plimming

What is plimming the present participle and gerund of?
Plimming is the present participle and gerund of plim.

Words near plimming in the dictionary

  1. plimmed
  2. Plimmer
  3. Plimmers
  4. Plimmerton
  5. plimmies
  6. plimming
  7. Plimpton
  8. Plimptonesque
  9. Plimptonian
  10. Plimptons
  11. plims

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