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whirreting

whirreting is the present participle and gerund of whirret.

Meaning of whirret

Verb

whirret (third-person singular simple present whirrets, present participle whirreting, simple past and past participle whirreted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To box someone's ears.

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Questions about whirreting

What is whirreting the present participle and gerund of?
Whirreting is the present participle and gerund of whirret.

Words near whirreting in the dictionary

  1. whirrer
  2. whirrers
  3. whirret
  4. whirreted
  5. whirreth
  6. whirreting
  7. whirrets
  8. whirried
  9. whirries
  10. whirring
  11. whirrings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whirreting (page history and authors); whirret (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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