warming

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ

Verb

warming

  1. present participle of warm

Noun

warming (plural warmings)

  1. A small rise in temperature.
  2. (slang) A beating; a thrashing.
    • Harry Goulding, A Grimsby Life - Part 1: Henry the Ninth (page 193)
      More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.

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