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English
Etymology
From drag + -ing.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dragging (comparative more dragging, superlative most dragging)
- That drags.
1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, , →OCLC, section I, pages 312–313:he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
- boring; dull
- excessively long
Derived terms
Noun
dragging (countable and uncountable, plural draggings)
- gerund of drag: an instance of something being dragged.
1914, Charles Edward Morrison, Earth Roads, page 24:As a result, after the first few draggings it is found that the surface becomes constantly smoother and harder and little rain remains on the roadway
- Synonym of drag racing.
Verb
dragging
- present participle and gerund of drag
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