warming

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːmɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwoɹmɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ
• Hyphenation: warm‧ing

From Middle English warmyng, warmynge, from Old English wærming, wirming, equivalent to warm +‎ -ing.

warming (plural warmings)

1. A small rise in temperature.
2. (slang) A beating; a thrashing.
   • 2017, Harry Goulding, A Grimsby Life - Part 1: Henry the Ninth, page 193:

     More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.

From Middle English warminge, warmynge, from Old English wærmiġende, wermende, wyrmende, present participle of Old English wyrman, wirman (“to warm”), equivalent to warm +‎ -ing.

warming

1. present participle and gerund of warm

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