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pocking

pocking is the present participle and gerund of pock.

Meaning of pock

Verb

pock (third-person singular simple present pocks, present participle pocking, simple past and past participle pocked)

  1. To scar or mark with pits
    • In and out of the tufts they went, with their eyes dilating; wishing to be out of harm, if conscience were but satisfied. And of this tufty flaggy ground, pocked with bogs and boglets, one especial nature is that it will not hold impressions.1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter VII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC, page 111

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Noun

pocking (plural pockings)

  1. The presence of pock marks.
    • Unfortunately, the floor was already so pitted that I could hardly tell the punch marks from the normal pockings of age.1953, Far Eastern Ceramic Bulletin

Forms of pocking

pluralpockings

Questions about pocking

What does pocking mean?
Pocking means the presence of pock marks.
What is pocking the present participle and gerund of?
Pocking is the present participle and gerund of pock.
What part of speech is pocking?
Pocking is a noun.
What is the plural of pocking?
The plural of pocking is pockings.

Words near pocking in the dictionary

  1. pockety
  2. pockier
  3. pockiest
  4. pockily
  5. pockiness
  6. pocking
  7. pockings
  8. Pocklington
  9. pockmanteau
  10. pockmanteaus
  11. pockmark

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