passing

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Adverb 1.3 Noun 1.4 Verb 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun

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passing (not comparable)

1. Surpassingly, greatly, quite.
   • 1995, William Patrick Kinsella, The Winter Helen Dropped By, chapter 1, excerpted in George Melnyk and Tamara Palmer Seiler (editors), The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose, University of Calgary Press (2003), ISBN 1552380793, page 155,

     “Every story,” Daddy said, “is about sex or death, or sometimes both.”

     “What about your baseball stories?” said I, thinking myself more than passing clever.

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passing (countable and uncountable; plural passings)

1. (euphemism) A death.
2. A form of juggling where several people pass props between each other, usually clubs or rings.

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passing

1. Present participle of pass.

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Borrowed from English

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passing m (usually uncountable)

1. (juggling) passing

• Le passing, ou comment jongler à plusieurs. (www.multiloisirs.com)