Usually means: Chewing without using any teeth.
Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions Lyrics History
We found 21 dictionaries that define the word gumming:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. gumming: Merriam-Webster
  2. gumming, gumming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gumming: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gumming: Vocabulary.com
  5. Gumming, gumming: Wordnik
  6. gumming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gumming: Wiktionary
  8. Gumming, gumming: Dictionary.com
  9. gumming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Gumming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. gumming: Rhymezone
  12. Gumming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. gumming: FreeDictionary.org
  14. gumming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. gumming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gumming: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gumming: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. gumming: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gumming: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gumming: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  2. gumming: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gum as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gumming)

noun:  The act of chewing without teeth.
noun:  (mining, historical) The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.
noun:  The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone.
noun:  A disease marked by a discharge of gum, affecting stone fruit.

Similar:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:




Words similar to gumming

Usage examples for gumming

Idioms related to gumming

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing gumming

Words that often appear near gumming

Rhymes of gumming

Invented words related to gumming

Similar:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux