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ticking and toying

ticking and toying is the present participle and gerund of tick and toy.

Meaning of tick and toy

Verb

tick and toy (third-person singular simple present ticks and toys, present participle ticking and toying, simple past and past participle ticked and toyed)

  1. (obsolete) To waste time; to dally or idle.

Questions about ticking and toying

What is ticking and toying the present participle and gerund of?
Ticking and toying is the present participle and gerund of tick and toy.

Words near ticking and toying in the dictionary

  1. tickiest
  2. tickin'
  3. ticking
  4. ticking a lock
  5. ticking all the boxes
  6. ticking and toying
  7. ticking and tying
  8. ticking away
  9. ticking bomb
  10. ticking bombs
  11. ticking by

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ticking and toying (page history and authors); tick and toy (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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