Meanings
watercressing1
nounwatercressing (plural not attested)
- no pluralThe act or process of gathering watercress.
I'll lock up and go watercressing. Or mushrooming. Or some damn thing.
2016, H. E. Bates, “Oh! Sweeter Than The Berry”, in The Song of the Wren
watercressing2
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of watercress
What are you watercressing for?
1911, Benjamin Bickley Rogers, transl., The comedies of Aristophanes, volume 4, page 661 more example
He used to brag that the ladder had four rounds and that he stood on the middle one when he was watercressing.
1991, Fred Archer, Grain and Chaff Under the Hill, page 94
Origin
watercressing · verb
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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