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netting.

Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈnɛtɪŋ/
  1. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *natją Proto-West Germanic *nati Old English nett Middle English net English net Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English netting From net + -ing.

noun
  1. Urine.

    UK · dialectal · obsolete · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”), from Old Saxon *nettian, from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan. Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”), all related to the above.

verb/ˈnɛtɪŋ/
  1. present participle and gerund of net

    form-of · gerund · participle · present
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