Word.ws English Dictionary

taking underwing

taking underwing is the present participle and gerund of take underwing.

Meaning of take underwing

Verb

take underwing (third-person singular simple present takes underwing, present participle taking underwing, simple past took underwing, past participle taken underwing)

  1. To take under one's wing.
    • I had the pleasure at one dance of being taken underwing by a woman of about sixty who whirled me about in the traditional dances.1985 August 10, Kate Raisz, “The Gay Mushes”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 5, page 10

Questions about taking underwing

What is taking underwing the present participle and gerund of?
Taking underwing is the present participle and gerund of take underwing.

Words near taking underwing in the dictionary

  1. taking too far
  2. taking turns
  3. taking umbrage
  4. taking under
  5. taking under advisement
  6. taking underwing
  7. taking up
  8. taking up a collection
  9. taking up arms
  10. taking up cudgels
  11. taking up for

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: taking underwing (page history and authors); take underwing (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “taking underwing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/taking_underwing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.