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Gassing   Listen
noun
Gassing  n.  
1.
(Manuf.) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.
2.
Boasting; insincere or empty talk. (Slang)





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"Gassing" Quotes from Famous Books



... Griffin. "That's the point. She's so taken up with her pose as suffering martyr that she overlooks a trifle like good work. Heavens, there's the gong! I've kept you here gassing when I know you're crazy to get to work. Come along in, and I'll help you set up your stand before ...
— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther
... about it? I wrote to her, the chaplain's wife I mean; I hadn't time to see her, but I sent it by the porter. I thought she'd do; she seemed a gossipy woman, kept on knitting and gassing over a stove in the hall. I thought she was—a sort of circulating library, you see. I tipped the porter—tow-headed Swiss brute. I suppose ...
— The Dark Tower • Phyllis Bottome
... she'll accept or refuse. So were I to go ahead, and Madame Hsing to follow me by and bye, there won't be any occasion for her to grumble or complain, so long as she assents; but, if she doesn't, why, Madame Hsing, who is so suspicious a creature, will possibly imagine that I've been gassing with her, and been the means of making her put on side and assume high airs. When Madame Hsing finds then that my conjectures have turned out true again, her shame will be converted into anger, and she'll so vent her ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... You mean old Savary, who was always gassing about his descent from NAPOLEON'S General? I think he went back to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 1, 1919 • Various


Words linked to "Gassing" :   chemical change, gas, chemical process, poisoning, chemical action


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