mimicking

English edit

From mimic +‎ -ing.

mimicking (countable and uncountable, plural mimickings)

(uncountable) gerund of mimic: mimicry; (countable) an instance of this.
- 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Buckthorne, or The Young Man of Great Expectations”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 2 (Buckthorne and His Friends), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, page 93:
  They had a thousand odd stories and jokes about the events of the day, and burlesque descriptions and mimickings of the spectators who had been admiring them.

mimicking