English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English motinge, moting, from Old English mōtung, equivalent to moot +‎ -ing.

Noun edit

mooting (plural mootings)

  1. The activity of taking part in a moot court.
    • 1806-1820, William Cobbett, Parliamentary History of England from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the Year 1803
      In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his.

Etymology 2 edit

From moot +‎ -ing.

Verb edit

mooting

  1. present participle and gerund of moot

Anagrams edit