warming
nounUK /ˈwɔːmɪŋ/ · US /ˈwoɹmɪŋ/
Etymology From Middle English warmyng, warmynge, from Old English wærming, wirming, equivalent to warm + -ing.
1
A small rise in temperature.
2
Slang A beating; a thrashing.
- More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.2017, Harry Goulding, A Grimsby Life - Part 1: Henry the Ninth, page 193:
- Related terms
- cockwarming, flat-warming, global warming, greenhouse warming, heart-warming, house-warming, house warming, strapwarming, sudden stratospheric warming, warming center, warming centre, warming drawer, warming pan, warming room, warming station, warming up