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ritzing

ritzing is the present participle and gerund of ritz.

Meaning of ritz

Verb

ritz (third-person singular simple present ritzes, present participle ritzing, simple past and past participle ritzed)

  1. (informal) To behave in an ostentatiously elegant manner.
    • What would I do with them in the room except dream all night through of ritzing around the world with swells?1937, Collier's, volume 99, page 69

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Questions about ritzing

What is ritzing the present participle and gerund of?
Ritzing is the present participle and gerund of ritz.

Words near ritzing in the dictionary

  1. Ritzian
  2. ritzier
  3. ritziest
  4. ritzily
  5. ritziness
  6. ritzing
  7. Ritzman
  8. Ritzmans
  9. Ritzville
  10. ritzy
  11. ritzy-glitzy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ritzing (page history and authors); ritz (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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