ewwing
- 1Present participle and gerund of eww.
Ewwing loudly, he pushed the plate of cold liver across the table.
The whole class started ewwing when the frog was opened up.
Note
Here the base is eww, an elongated spelling of ew in which the extra letter stretches the groan out. Because both bases produce the same written form, a reader usually cannot tell which one was meant, and nothing in the meaning separates them. The grammar, too, matches the participle of ew. The only difference is how long the speaker holds the sound.
- 2Present participle and gerund of ew.
Ewwing at the spoiled milk, she dumped the whole carton down the drain.
The campers kept ewwing as they cleaned mud and bugs off their boots.
Note
A verb made from a noise: ew, the cry of disgust, put to work as a rare, colloquial verb. It runs with or without an object, so you can be ewwing at the leftovers, ewwing the leftovers, or simply ewwing. As a gerund it can stand where a noun would, as in her ewwing lasted all dinner. Adding -ing to ew doubles the w, so the spelling falls together with the drawn-out eww.
ewwing is a form of ew
ew, verb: To let out an "ew" as a way of showing disgust at someone or something. Full entry
- Spelling
- ew → ewwing: double the w, add -ing
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