'Gumming' definitions:
Definition of 'gumming'
(from WordNet)
noun
Ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) [syn: mumbling, gumming]
Definition of 'Gumming'
From: GCIDE
- Gum \Gum\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gummed (g[u^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Gumming.]
- 1. To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance. [1913 Webster]
- He frets like a gummed velvet. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To chew with the gums, rather than with the teeth. [PJC]
- gum up (a) To block or clog (a conduit) with or as if with gum; as, to gum up the drainpipe. (b) to interfere with; to spoil. [Slang] [PJC]
Words containing 'Gumming'
- Gum,
- Gummed,
- gum up,
- gummed up,
- Alsace gum,
- Black gum,
- Blue gum,
- British gum,
- Chicle gum,
- Elastic gum,
- Gum Acaroidea,
- Gum Ladanum,
- Gum Senegal,
- Gum Springs,
- Gum animal,
- Gum arabic,
- Gum butea,
- Gum cistus,
- Gum dragon,
- Gum elastic,
- Gum elemi,
- Gum juniper,
- Gum kino,
- Gum lac,
- Gum passages,
- Gum pot,
- Gum rash,
- Gum resin,
- Gum sandarac,
- Gum stick,
- Gum tragacanth,
- Gum water,
- Gum wood,
- Hog gum,
- Kauri gum,
- Macaranga gum,
- Sour gum,
- Sweet gum,
- Tupelo gum,
- Wood gum,
- accroides gum,
- bubble gum,
- butea gum,
- chewing gum,
- cider gum,
- congo gum,
- eucalyptus gum,
- flooded gum,
- ghatti gum,
- ghost gum,
- guar gum,
- gum acacia,
- gum accroides,
- gum albanum,
- gum ammoniac,
- gum anime,
- gum ball,
- gum benjamin,
- gum benzoin,
- gum boot,
- gum dammar,
- gum eurphorbium,
- gum labdanum,
- gum myrrh,
- gum olibanum,
- gum plant,
- gum ridge,
- gum sangapenum,
- gum terpentine,
- gum tree,
- gum trees,
- gummed label,
- karaya gum,
- kino gum,
- manna gum,
- mesquite gum,
- peppermint gum,
- red gum,
- river gum,
- rose gum,
- senegal gum,
- snow gum,
- sonora gum,
- spirit gum,
- spotted gum,
- sterculia gum,
- swamp gum,
- water gum,
- Gum Springs, AR,
- Red-gum,
- american sweet gum,
- bubble gum dermatitis,
- common gum cistus,
- forest red gum,
- gum-lac,
- gum-like,
- mountain swamp gum,
- river red gum,
- sweet gum tree,
- Gum animi or anim'e,
- cherry-tree gum,
- lemon-scented gum,
- sour-gum family