parring
USPAHR-ing/ˈpɑɹɪŋ/UKPAH-ring/ˈpɑːɹɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of par.
After a shaky start, he settled down and kept parring the long holes on the back nine.
Parring the eighteenth hole under that pressure took real nerve.
Note
The r of par doubles before -ing, as it does in parred. On the golf course the form tracks a round in progress (she is parring every hole) or names the feat as a gerund (parring the last hole won it). In Multicultural London English it means hanging out, and it takes with: who you parring with?
parring is a form of par
par, verb: In golf, to complete a hole in exactly the allotted number of strokes. Full entry
- Spelling
- par → parring: double the r, add -ing
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