Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of murder
nounmurdering (countable and uncountable, plural murderings)
plural murderings
- countableuncountableThe act of committing murder.
the speedy perpetration of these licensed murderings
1826, James Silk Buckingham, The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature
adverbmurdering (not comparable)
- Irelandnot comparableExceedingly; terribly; incredibly.
"But I was up, you see, murdherin' late last night." "To be shure, thin, Paddy, it was up at the great dinner, yisterday, above at the big house you wor."
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 514
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