wading
/wˈeɪdɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Appropriate to wade in.
name
Synonym of Wading River.
Example Sentences
- "The pool is too small for doing laps: it’s only a wading pool."
- "Flamingos are wading birds."
- "[I]n ten minutes more the sun was up, and blazing so fiercely, that we were glad to cool ourselves in fancy, by talking over salmon-fishings in Scotland and New Brunswick, and wadings in icy streams beneath the black pine-woods."
- "Bradly tapped the ashes from his pipe, signifying a leisured interlude over. "Time to get a move on," he said, and began to unlace his boots for wading."
Etymology
Etymology tree English wade Proto-Indo-European *-onts Proto-Germanic *-ndz Proto-West Germanic *-andī Old English -ende Middle English -ynge English -ing English wading From wade + -ing.