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reffing

reffing is the present participle and gerund of ref.

Meaning of ref

Verb

ref (third-person singular simple present refs, present participle reffing, simple past and past participle reffed)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game.
    • On the block when we were growing up we called him Ronnie the Enforcer because he umped all the stickball games and reffed the hockey.1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type

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Questions about reffing

What is reffing the present participle and gerund of?
Reffing is the present participle and gerund of ref.

Words near reffing in the dictionary

  1. refettling
  2. Reff
  3. reffed
  4. Reffett
  5. Reffetts
  6. reffing
  7. Reffitt
  8. Reffitts
  9. Reffner
  10. Reffners
  11. reffo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reffing (page history and authors); ref (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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