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Webster 1828 Edition

Patching

PATCH'ING

,

ppr.

Mending with a piece or pieces; botching.

Definition 2024

patching

patching

English

Noun

patching ‎(plural patchings)

The act of one who patches.
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
  […] all this is not neatness, but frippery. These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours.

Verb

patching

present participle of patch

Derived terms

monkey-patching

Anagrams

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