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watercressing

noun

Etymology

From watercress + -ing (participle).

  1. inherited from water cresse
  2. formed as watercressing — “watercress + -ing”

Definitions

  1. The act or process of gathering watercress.

    • I'll lock up and go watercressing. Or mushrooming. Or some damn thing.

  2. present participle and gerund of watercress

    • What are you watercressing for?
    • He used to brag that the ladder had four rounds and that he stood on the middle one when he was watercressing.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for watercressing. 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