plantsit

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A form of plant-sit — To take care of someone's plants while they are away.

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Meanings

verbplantsit (third-person singular simple present plantsits, present participle plantsitting, simple past and past participle plantsat or (uncommon) plantsitted)

present singular third person plantsits · participle present plantsitting · participle past plantsat · past plantsat · participle past uncommon plantsitted · past uncommon plantsitted

  1. alternativeAlternative form of plant-sit.

    Michael thought she was going to ask him to dogsit Margo, but no. "You're so good with plants," she said, "that I'm sure you're just the person to plantsit.

    2004, Nancy McArthur, The Escape of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, page 77
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    Curiously, other plants like the cymbidium from the supermarket, the Cattleya I was plantsitting, and the nameless Epidendrum bought for a few dollars at the Miami airport did not seem to suffer from my clumsy attentions.

    1993, Jean-Jacques Béguin, The World Artificially Propagated Orchid Species Source Book

    HOUSEFLITTER Housefl tter (n.) 'howss-flit-tur Person who lives for months or years without a permanent address by jumping from one housesitting, catsitting, or plantsitting gig to the next.

    2013, Liesl Schillinger, Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plantsit,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plantsit.

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