gumming
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
gumming
- present participle and gerund of gum
Noun edit
gumming (countable and uncountable, plural gummings)
- The act of chewing without teeth.
- 1994, Don Byrd, The Poetics of the Common Knowledge, page 201:
- We give teething babies ABC books made of materials that can withstand repeated gummings.
- (mining, historical) The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.
- The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone.
- A disease marked by a discharge of gum, affecting stone fruit.