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yarning on

yarning on is the present participle and gerund of yarn on.

Meaning of yarn on

Verb

yarn on (third-person singular simple present yarns on, present participle yarning on, simple past and past participle yarned on)

  1. (transitive) To continue telling stories for a long time; to yammer without interruption.
    • Nothing would stop him from yarning on.

Questions about yarning on

What is yarning on the present participle and gerund of?
Yarning on is the present participle and gerund of yarn on.

Words near yarning on in the dictionary

  1. yarnes
  2. Yarnfield
  3. Yarnfield and Cold Meece
  4. yarning
  5. yarning dust
  6. yarning on
  7. yarnless
  8. yarnlike
  9. yarnmaker
  10. yarnmakers
  11. yarnover

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yarning on (page history and authors); yarn on (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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