Definify.com
Webster 1828 Edition
Patching
PATCH'ING
,ppr.
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.
- 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
Verb
patching
- present participle of patch
Derived terms
- monkey-patching