patching

The act of one who patches.

Noun

  1. The act of one who patches.
    • […] all this is not neatness, but frippery. These rufflings, and pinkings, and patchings, will only make us hated by all the wives of our neighbours. - 1766, Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield:

Forms

patchings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of patch

Derived

monkey-patching patching up patching-up

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