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English
Etymology
From wade + -ing.
Pronunciation
Adjective
wading (not comparable)
- Appropriate to wade in.
The pool is too small for doing laps: it’s only a wading pool.
- Usually of a bird: which wades.
Flamingos are wading birds.
Derived terms
Noun
wading (countable and uncountable, plural wadings)
- gerund of wade: the act of one who wades.
1871, Charles Kingsley, “The High Woods”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. , volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 232:[I]n ten minutes more the sun was up, and blazing so fiercely, that we were glad to cool ourselves in fancy, by talking over salmon-fishings in Scotland and New Brunswick, and wadings in icy streams beneath the black pine-woods.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139:Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. "Time to get a move on," he said, and began to unlace his boots for wading.
Verb
wading
- present participle and gerund of wade
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