making

• makeing (obsolete)
• makin, makkin (Wearside, Durham, dialectal)
• makin', mekin (pronunciation spelling)
• myekin (Geordie, dialectal)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
• Hyphenation: mak‧ing

From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.

making (countable and uncountable, plural makings)

1. The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
2. Process of growth or development.

   As a child, he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.

• maker

From make +‎ -ing.

making

1. present participle and gerund of make
   • 1981, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas

     Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn^[sic] eat.