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maying en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmeɪ.ɪŋ/ (General-American, UK)

Etymology

From May + -ing, or may (“celebrate May Day festivities”) + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (countable, historical, uncountable) The celebrations traditionally held to celebrate May Day.
    • SOo it befelle in the moneth of May / quene Gueneuer called vnto her knyȝtes of the table round / and she gafe them warnynge that erly vpon the morowe she wold ryde on mayeng in to woodes & feldes besyde westmynstre / & I warne yow that there be none of yow but that he be wel horsed / and that ye alle be clothed on grene outher in sylke outher in clothe 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIX:
    • […]sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had their several mayings; and did fetch in maypoles[…]. 1598, John Stow, A Survey of London:

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maying en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈmeɪ.ɪŋ/ (General-American, UK)

Etymology

From May + -ing, or may (“celebrate May Day festivities”) + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of may
    form of may