darting
English
editVerb
editdarting
- present participle and gerund of dart
Noun
editdarting (plural dartings)
- A motion or gesture that darts.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- During this period, a different set of abnormal mouth-movements made their appearance: forced protrusions of the lips, propulsion of the tongue, and occasional choreic dartings of the tongue.
- 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home:
- Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.