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pushpinning

pushpinning is the present participle and gerund of pushpin.

Meaning of pushpin

Verb

pushpin (third-person singular simple present pushpins, present participle pushpinning, simple past and past participle pushpinned)

  1. (transitive) To fasten with a thumbtack.

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Questions about pushpinning

What is pushpinning the present participle and gerund of?
Pushpinning is the present participle and gerund of pushpin.

Words near pushpinning in the dictionary

  1. pushpads
  2. Pushpanjali
  3. Pushpesh
  4. pushpin
  5. pushpinned
  6. pushpinning
  7. pushpins
  8. pushpit
  9. pushpits
  10. pushrim
  11. pushrims

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pushpinning (page history and authors); pushpin (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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