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three-naming

three-naming is the present participle and gerund of three-name.

Meaning of three-name

Verb

three-name (third-person singular simple present three-names, present participle three-naming, simple past and past participle three-named)

  1. (US, slang) The act of vocatively referring to someone (usually a child in one's family) using their full legal name (first, middle, and last) in order to emphasize a scolding.
    • Mom got super mad: she three-named my little brother as he made eye contact and dumped his noodles on the floor. "John Paul Smith, don't you dare dump those noodles on the floor!"

Questions about three-naming

What is three-naming the present participle and gerund of?
Three-naming is the present participle and gerund of three-name.

Words near three-naming in the dictionary

  1. three-minute warning
  2. three-minute warnings
  3. three-name
  4. three-named
  5. three-names
  6. three-naming
  7. three-of-a-kind
  8. three-on-the-tree
  9. three-on-the-trees
  10. three-parent
  11. three-party

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Adapted from Wiktionary: three-naming (page history and authors); three-name (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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