flagging

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈflæɡɪŋ/

Verb

flagging

  1. present participle of flag

Noun

flagging (plural flaggings)

  1. A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
  2. The process by which something flags or tires.
    • Joseph Addison
      That secret intoxication of pleasure, with all those transient flushings of guilt and joy, which the poet represents in our first parents upon their eating the forbidden fruit, to those flaggings of spirit, damps of sorrow, and mutual accusations which succeed it […]
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