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pawning

noun

Etymology

From pawn + -ing.

  1. derived from *pand✻ — “deposit, security, pledge”
  2. derived from pan
  3. inherited from paun
  4. suffixed as pawning — “pawn + ing”

Definitions

  1. The act by which something is pawned.

  2. present participle and gerund of pawn

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pawning. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA