"pilling" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pillings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pilling (plural pillings)
  1. Balls of fibre formed on clothing through usage, often called pill or pills. Translations (balls of fibre): cucky (Czech), žmolky (Czech), nukka (Finnish), nöyhtä (Finnish), bouloche [feminine] (French), Fussel [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-pilling-en-noun-lswNvZj2

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} pilling
  1. present participle and gerund of pill Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: pill
    Sense id: en-pilling-en-verb-Zvkju~UQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pilling meaning in English (1.5kB)

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