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logicking

USLAH-jik-ing/ˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪk.ɪŋ/SayLO-jik-ingUK/ˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪk.ɪŋ/AUS/ˈlɔd͡ʒ.ɪk.ɪŋ/

2 meanings of logicking

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  1. 1
    nounderogatoryuncountable
    A disparaging term for the use of logic or for logical thinking.

    Like the sneer in calling someone a "walking calculator": the skill is real, but the word mocks it.

    Her cold logicking won the debate but lost her the room's sympathy.

    He reduced every moral question to dry logicking, ignoring how people actually felt.

    Similarpedantry, hair-splitting, rationalizing

    Note

    A word that can carry a sneer but does not always: it often mocks reasoning pursued for its own sake and cut off from feeling. John Lord in The Christian philosopher and metaphysician (1852) prays to be delivered from "such logic, such logicking, and such logickers." Note the k: logic plus -ing takes one so the c stays hard, as in panicking.

  2. 2
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of logic.
    Note

    The verb behind it is used in two ways. Without an object it is usually disparaging: someone logicking away is reasoning too much or in the wrong place. With an object it is neutral, meaning to reason something through, or to argue a person into defeat. As a gerund it is spelled exactly like the noun for logical thinking, so context decides which you are reading.

logicking is a form of logic

logic, verb: To apply careful, logical reasoning to a problem or question. Full entry

Forms
logiclogics he/she/itlogicking -ing formlogicked past tense, past participle
Spelling
logic → logicking: add k, then -ing

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Origin

Formed from "logic" combined with the suffix "-ing."