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tardying

tardying is the present participle and gerund of tardy.

Meaning of tardy

Verb

tardy (third-person singular simple present tardies, present participle tardying, simple past and past participle tardied)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To make tardy.
    • the good mind of Camillo tardied
      My swift commandc. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (intransitive, rare) To dawdle.
    • Sitting there on the rock behind the school, I heard nothing but the occasional raised voice of some youngster tardying on his way home, and the joints in the schoolhouse squeaking from the frost.2001, Donna Morrissey, Kit's Law, page 86

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Questions about tardying

What is tardying the present participle and gerund of?
Tardying is the present participle and gerund of tardy.

Words near tardying in the dictionary

  1. tardos
  2. tards
  3. tardy
  4. tardy slip
  5. tardy slips
  6. tardying
  7. tardyon
  8. tardyonic
  9. tardyons
  10. Tardys
  11. tare

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