Word.ws English Dictionary

Yewtreeing

Yewtreeing is the present participle and gerund of Yewtree.

Meaning of Yewtree

Verb

Yewtree (third-person singular simple present Yewtrees, present participle Yewtreeing, simple past and past participle Yewtreed)

  1. (UK, slang) To investigate historic sexual offences as part of Operation Yewtree, or otherwise reveal or allege someone (especially a celebrity active in the 1970s and 1980s) to be a paedophile or abuser.
    • Having been born in the late 80s, I remember Saturday night TV through a child’s eyes. Unfortunately, most of the people who were on it have now either died, been Yewtreed, or gone nuts.2013 May 28, Bradley Steptoe, “I Tracked Down Mr Blobby’s Lair”, in VICE

See all 3 meanings of Yewtree

Questions about Yewtreeing

What is Yewtreeing the present participle and gerund of?
Yewtreeing is the present participle and gerund of Yewtree.

Words near Yewtreeing in the dictionary

  1. yewies
  2. yewlike
  3. yews
  4. Yewtree
  5. Yewtreed
  6. Yewtreeing
  7. Yewtrees
  8. yewy
  9. yewzh
  10. yewzhes
  11. yex

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Yewtreeing (page history and authors); Yewtree (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Yewtreeing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yewtreeing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.