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woking

woking is the present participle and gerund of wok.

Meaning of wok

Verb

wok (third-person singular simple present woks, present participle woking or wokking, simple past and past participle woked or wokked)

  1. To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.

See all 3 meanings of wok

Proper noun capitalized: Woking

Woking

  1. A town in the borough of Woking, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0058).
  2. A local government district with borough status in Surrey, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in the town.
  3. A hamlet in Saddle Hills County, Alberta, Canada.

Origin of woking

From the Old English tribe name *Woc(c)ingas, from the personal name *Woc(c)a + -ingas (“relating to”).

Words formed from woking

Questions about woking

What does woking mean?
Woking means a town in the borough of Woking, Surrey, England (OS grid ref TQ0058).
What is woking the present participle and gerund of?
Woking is the present participle and gerund of wok.
What part of speech is woking?
Woking is a proper noun.

Words near woking in the dictionary

  1. wokification
  2. wokified
  3. wokifies
  4. wokify
  5. wokifying
  6. woking
  7. Wokingham
  8. Wokingham Without
  9. Wokipedia
  10. wokism
  11. wokisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woking (page history and authors); Woking (page history and authors); wok (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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