guitaring

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The action or practice of playing a guitar.

   Years of steady guitaring left him with calloused fingertips and an easy stage presence.

   The band's loose, bluesy guitaring carried the whole second set.

2. 2
   verbcolloquial

   Present participle and gerund of guitar. Informal.

   He spent the entire weekend guitaring out in the garage.

   They were guitaring softly while everyone else chatted by the fire.

   Note

   The verb behind this form is a casual one, so guitaring suits conversation and relaxed description better than formal prose. With be it builds the progressive (they were guitaring by the fire). Without it, it can stand as a verbal noun (guitaring kept him busy). Once adjectives begin to modify it, as in loose, bluesy guitaring, it has crossed into the noun for guitar playing.

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