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wallflowering

wallflowering is the present participle and gerund of wallflower.

Meaning of wallflower

Verb

wallflower (third-person singular simple present wallflowers, present participle wallflowering, simple past and past participle wallflowered)

  1. (intransitive) To stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.
    • […] the idea that a full tango experience is impossible without the presence of wallflowers and without the threat of wallflowering as the potential dancers enter the tango club.2010, Alexandra Carter, Janet O'Shea, The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, page 237

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Questions about wallflowering

What is wallflowering the present participle and gerund of?
Wallflowering is the present participle and gerund of wallflower.

Words near wallflowering in the dictionary

  1. wallflower
  2. wallflower cabbage
  3. wallflower cabbages
  4. wallflower poison
  5. wallflowered
  6. wallflowering
  7. wallflowerish
  8. wallflowers
  9. wallflowery
  10. wallful
  11. wallfuls

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