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thobbing

thobbing is the present participle and gerund of thob.

Meaning of thob

Verb

thob (third-person singular simple present thobs, present participle thobbing, simple past and past participle thobbed)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To engage in wishful thinking; to believe something regardless of evidence because it aligns with one's opinion; to rationalize.
    • Oh, there's no possible way of distinguishing the ideas. Everything depends on how you regard them. If you dearly love a theory, you are thobbing. If you are curious about it, you are not thobbing.1926, Henshaw Ward, “Studio Lecture”, in Thobbing: A Seat at the Circus of the Intellect, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 12
    Synonyms:
    wishcast

Questions about thobbing

What is thobbing the present participle and gerund of?
Thobbing is the present participle and gerund of thob.

Words near thobbing in the dictionary

  1. Tho.
  2. thoa
  3. thoan
  4. thob
  5. thobbed
  6. thobbing
  7. thobe
  8. thobes
  9. thobs
  10. thock
  11. thocked

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