teeming

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːmɪŋ/

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• Homophone: teaming
• Rhymes: -iːmɪŋ

Verb

teeming

1. present participle and gerund of teem

Adjective

teeming (comparative more teeming, superlative most teeming)

1. (now regional) Bearing offspring; breeding; pregnant. [from 16th c.]
   • 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 368:

     Seventy beds keeps he there teeming mothers are wont that they lie for to thole and bring forth bairns hale so God's angel to Mary quoth.

2. Hugely productive; prolific, fertile. [from 16th c.]
3. Swarming, thronged, crowded. [from 17th c.]
4. Of rain: falling heavily, pouring. [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

• teemingly
• teemingness
• unteeming

Translations

swarming, filled with abundance

• Dutch: overvol (nl), krioelend (nl),
• Māori: pororua
• Spanish: atestado (es), repleto (es), lleno (es)
• Ukrainian: переповнений (perepovnenyj), кишачий m (kyšačyj)

of heavy rain

• Dutch: stortregen (nl),
• Māori: makerewhatu

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