blowing
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbloʊ.ɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbləʊ.ɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English blowynge, blowende, from Old English blāwende, from Proto-Germanic *blēandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”), equivalent to blow + -ing.
Verb edit
blowing
- present participle and gerund of blow
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English blowynge, blowyng, from Old English blāwung (“blowing”), equivalent to blow + -ing.
Noun edit
blowing (plural blowings)
- The act of one who blows, or that which blows.
- the blowings of a trumpet
- the puffings and blowings of an unfit runner
- 2014, Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers House a Haunt:
- […] the tea had been poured from the cups into the deep saucers from which it would have been drunk with genteel blowings and whiffings, according to the custom of the time.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Noun edit
blowing
- Alternative form of blowynge (“blowing”)