hemming
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See also: Hemming
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛmɪŋ
Verb
[edit]hemming
- present participle and gerund of hem
Noun
[edit]hemming (plural hemmings)
- The act of saying "hem", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
- 1847, The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, page 285:
- Blushing and stammering, awkward pauses, hemmings and hawings, tremblings of voice, and confusion in all its shapes there were between them […]
Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hemming m
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hemming”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.