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yamming

yamming is the present participle and gerund of yam.

Meaning of yam

Verb (1)

yam (third-person singular simple present yams, present participle yamming, simple past and past participle yammed)

  1. (UK, slang) To eat.
    • “If I was that snake I’d just open my jaw and yam that fool up in one bite!”2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 78

Verb (2)

yam (third-person singular simple present yams, present participle yamming, simple past and past participle yammed)

  1. (especially) To dunk on; to beat humiliatingly.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:yam.

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Questions about yamming

What is yamming the present participle and gerund of?
Yamming is the present participle and gerund of yam.

Words near yamming in the dictionary

  1. yammering on
  2. yammerings
  3. yammers
  4. yammers on
  5. Yammies
  6. yamming
  7. yammy
  8. Yamnaya
  9. YAMO
  10. yamogenin
  11. YAMOs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yamming (page history and authors); yam (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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