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noun

Gassing n.

(Manuf.) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.

Boasting; insincere or empty talk. (Slang)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gassing" Quotes from Famous Books

... it!" exclaimed Bud. "I should let Buck Tooth tell it, instead of keeping him gassing away about the past. What's the ...

— The Boy Ranchers on the Trail • Willard F. Baker

... his most casual manner. "You're the one that'll go down in history, Coxine, as the biggest space-gassing idiot that ...

— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell

... was dismayed. "You see! What's the good of gassing? As soon as I ask anything of you, you dry up. Bah! I daresay you will guy me just as much as all ...

— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick

... able to keep her and her children in starvation is a fool, and a man who wants a woman to suffer what wives have to, and drudge in poverty, is a selfish brute—that's what I've always thought. As for gassing about love when there's no comfort to keep it alive, that's about as foundationless as we, always being supposed to think men our superiors, even the ones a blind ...

— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin

... old man; it wasn't made for dreamers. And one of the first dreams that you've got to wake from is the dream that anybody connected with the stage can be relied on from one day to the next. They gas for the sake of gassing, or they tell you pleasant lies out of mere goodwill, just as they call for your drinks. Their promises are beautiful bubbles, on a basis of soft soap ...

— Merely Mary Ann • Israel Zangwill

Words linked to "Gassing" : gas, poisoning, chemical process, chemical change