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Webster 1913 Edition

Gassing

Gas′sing

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Noun.
1.
(Manuf.)
The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.
2.
Boasting; insincere or empty talk.
[Slang]

Definition 2024

gassing

gassing

English

Verb

gassing

  1. present participle of gas

Noun

gassing ‎(usually uncountable, plural gassings)

  1. Poisoning by noxious gas.
  2. The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
  3. The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
  4. Any similar process of singeing.
  5. (slang) boasting; insincere or empty talk
    • 1940, Christina Stead, The Man who Loved Children
      He bent over her shoulder and read, Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, I can't stand your gassing, oh, what a windbag, what will shut you up, shut up, shut up. And so ad infinitum. He was terribly hurt.

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