nodding
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒdɪŋ
Verb
nodding
- present participle of nod
Derived terms
Noun
nodding (plural noddings)
- The act by which one nods.
- 1828, Robert Mudie, Babylon the Great:
- The Commons, on the other hand, upon permission being granted to appear at their Lordships' bar, come in with as many and as sapient noddings of the head, as a wooden mandarin performs in a tea-dealer's window […]
Adjective
nodding (not comparable)