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Vinony

blowing

noun

  1. technique in material arts
  2. suck, be bad
  3. oral sex
  4. cause motion by air current
  5. explode
  6. act of making an error
  7. the act of creating, shaping by blowing air
  8. The act of making sound like a trumpet
  9. like the wind
  10. The act of wasting, consuming, using
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbləʊ.ɪŋ/ / /ˈblaː.ɪn/ / /ˈbloʊ.ɪŋ/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English blowynge, blowyng, from Old English blāwung (“blowing”), equivalent to blow + -ing.

  1. The act of one who blows, or that which blows.

    “the blowings of a trumpet”

    “the puffings and blowings of an unfit runner”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English blowynge, blowende, from Old English blāwende, from Proto-Germanic *blēandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”), equivalent to blow + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of blow