gumming

Meanings

Plural: gummings

Noun

• ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
• The act of chewing without teeth.
• The manual removal of clay, or "gum", from cut coal.
• The act of fastening with gum, especially the application of gum-water to a lithographic stone.
• Synonym of gummosis (“plant disease”).

Verb

• cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
• grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
• become sticky
• exude or form gum
• present participle and gerund of gum

Synonyms

gum, gummosis, mumble, mumbling