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short-coating

short-coating is the present participle and gerund of short-coat.

Meaning of short-coat

Verb

short-coat (third-person singular simple present short-coats, present participle short-coating, simple past and past participle short-coated)

  1. (transitive) To dress in short-coats.
    • Very few mothers dress their children in white at this season after they have come to be short-coated.1885, Leroy Milton Yale, Babyhood: The Mother's Nursery Guide, volume 1, page 85

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Questions about short-coating

What is short-coating the present participle and gerund of?
Short-coating is the present participle and gerund of short-coat.

Words near short-coating in the dictionary

  1. short-circuiter
  2. short-circuiting
  3. short-circuits
  4. short-coat
  5. short-coated
  6. short-coating
  7. short-coats
  8. short-corner
  9. short-cut
  10. short-cuts
  11. short-cutting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-coating (page history and authors); short-coat (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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