making
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- makeing (obsolete)
- makin, makkin (Wearside, Durham, dialectal)
- makin', mekin (pronunciation spelling)
- myekin (Tyneside, dialectal)
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make + -ing. Cognate with Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.
NounEdit
making (countable and uncountable, plural makings)
- The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
- Process of growth or development.
- As a child, he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.
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Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
making
- present participle of make
- 1981, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas
- Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn[sic] eat.
- 1981, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas