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somethinging

somethinging is the present participle and gerund of something.

Meaning of something

Verb

something (third-person singular simple present somethings, present participle somethinging, simple past and past participle somethinged)

  1. (colloquial) Designates an action whose name is forgotten by, unknown or unimportant to the user, e.g. from words of a song.
    • He didn’t apply for it for a long time, and then there was a hitch about it, and it was somethinged—vetoed, I believe she said.1890, William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140439234&id=IOZeJi7U4eEC&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&sig=LW2P-uKmoZabe70ZKnIHIMQLXlw

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Questions about somethinging

What is somethinging the present participle and gerund of?
Somethinging is the present participle and gerund of something.

Words near somethinging in the dictionary

  1. something-something
  2. something-somethings
  3. somethingburger
  4. somethingburgers
  5. somethinged
  6. somethinging
  7. Somethingism
  8. somethingness
  9. somethings
  10. somethingth
  11. somethink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somethinging (page history and authors); something (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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