crowding
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɹaʊdɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -aʊdɪŋ
Verb
crowding
- present participle of crowd
Noun
crowding (plural crowdings)
- The act by which somebody is crowded.
- 1832, Thomas Carlyle, "Boswell's Life of Johnson", in Fraser's Magazine
- To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel […]
- 1832, Thomas Carlyle, "Boswell's Life of Johnson", in Fraser's Magazine