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sherlocking

sherlocking is the present participle and gerund of sherlock.

Verb capitalized: Sherlocking

Sherlocking

  1. (gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of Sherlock

Questions about sherlocking

What is sherlocking the present participle and gerund of?
Sherlocking is the present participle and gerund of sherlock.
What part of speech is sherlocking?
Sherlocking is a verb.

Words near sherlocking in the dictionary

  1. sherlocked
  2. Sherlockesque
  3. Sherlockian
  4. Sherlockiana
  5. Sherlockians
  6. sherlocking
  7. Sherlockish
  8. sherlocks
  9. Sherlocky
  10. Sherlolly
  11. Sherlyn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sherlocking (page history and authors); Sherlocking (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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