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English
Etymology
From mimic + -ing.
Pronunciation
Noun
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 C Carey & I 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.
Verb
mimicking
- present participle and gerund of mimic