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watercressing en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From watercress + -ing.

Meanings

1. (no-plural) The act or process of gathering watercress.
   • I'll lock up and go watercressing. Or mushrooming. Or some damn thing. 2016, H. E. Bates, “Oh! Sweeter Than The Berry”, in The Song of the Wren:

watercressing en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of watercress
   form of watercress
   • He used to brag that the ladder had four rounds and that he stood on the middle one when he was watercressing. 1991, Fred Archer, Grain and Chaff Under the Hill, page 94:
   • What are you watercressing for? 1911, Benjamin Bickley Rogers, transl., The comedies of Aristophanes, volume 4, page 66: