wining
- 1A social occasion given over to drinking wine together for pleasure and company.
A long afternoon of wining at the vineyard left everyone in high spirits.
Their anniversary wining stretched well past midnight, the table crowded with empty bottles.
Similardrinking, carousing, revelry
Note
The noun is countable, so it can be plural, and it often appears in the same pairing as the verb. Evelyn Barish's Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy (2014) grants the Emerson adults their "regular, formal winings and dinings." In that pair, the hospitality of the entertaining verb becomes a set of occasions that can be counted.
- 2Present participle of wine.
The firm was wining and dining potential investors at the best restaurant in the city.
Wining and dining clients became a routine part of her job as the company grew.
Note
One spelling here serves three verbs. With an object it means treating someone to wine, as in wining clients, and it most often travels in the fixed pair wining and dining. Without an object it can mean simply drinking wine, or dancing a Jamaican dance such as the Dutty Wine, so context tells you which. The final e of wine drops before -ing, leaving a single n.
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wining is a form of wine
wine, verb: To entertain a person by providing them with wine, often as part of hospitality. Full entry
- Spelling
- wine → wining: drop the e, add -ing
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