hemming
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 7
Definition of hemming
3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of hem
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verb
- (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of hem
noun
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The act of saying "hem", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
“Blushing and stammering, awkward pauses, hemmings and hawings, tremblings of voice, and confusion in all its shapes there were between them […]”
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
* As an English, Scottish, and Swedish surname, from the Old Norse personal name Hemingr, variant of Hæmingr, itself of uncertain origin, possibly from hamr, hemingr (“form, shape; skin of an animal”). This word may have been borrowed into Old English as hemming (“a rawhide boot”). * As a German surname, variant of Hemme.
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