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ironing

14 1.0
An activity of using a hot flat tool to make clothes smooth and remove wrinkles
  • noun
  • /ˈaɪərnɪŋ/
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  • In my memories of my mother ironing, it's always a summer evening.
  • ironing work

I love cooking, love cleaning, love ironing, love gardening.

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Examples

  • I love cooking, love cleaning, love ironing, love gardening.

    Mulligan Brothers Interviews

  • I do all the cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing and grocery shopping.

    The Help (2011)

  • You do all our ironing for the next month.

    Big Time Movie (2012)

  • I have my ironing to do.

    The Seventh Cross (1944)

  • Might as well get going with the ironing.

    The Boogey Man (1980)

  • I got a lot of washing and ironing to do.

    The Broadway Melody (1929)

  • My mother was just done ironing, and she had sat down to sew.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Aunt Amanda had the ironing board out and was ironing.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Rosalie went about cleaning, scrubbing, watering, serving, ironing, and cooking.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • I need to finish my ironing before the guests arrive.

Antonyms

wrinkle
77 1.0

A small fold in skin, cloth, or paper

to crumple
29 3.4

Get folded and wrinkled when pressed, like paper or cloth

Compounds

ironing board
5 1.0

A long narrow padded board with folding legs used to press clothes

ironing press
3.2

A machine with a large heated plate that presses clothes flat

How Smooth

ironed
1.0
ironing
14 1.0
wrinkled
34 1.5

Surface Forms

ironing singular
ironings plural

Morphology

ironing = iron (transparent) = iron + ing

The noun directly denotes the activity of ironing, formed transparently from the verb 'iron' plus '-ing'.

Etymology

Ironing comes from the tool iron, a hot heavy tool once used to press clothes 'to smooth' wrinkles. So ironing means the action of using an iron to make clothes flat and neat.