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zedding

zedding is the present participle and gerund of zed.

Meaning of zed

Verb

zed (third-person singular simple present zeds, present participle zedding, simple past and past participle zedded)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal, intransitive) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
    • Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.1991, Jim Cartwright, Bed
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
    • We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...1931, Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin

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Questions about zedding

What is zedding the present participle and gerund of?
Zedding is the present participle and gerund of zed.

Words near zedding in the dictionary

  1. zeda
  2. zedakah
  3. Zedd
  4. zedded
  5. Zeddies
  6. zedding
  7. Zeddy
  8. Zedediah
  9. Zedekiah
  10. zedoaria
  11. zedoaries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zedding (page history and authors); zed (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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