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say it: BET-ing
betting is an adjective meaning "preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance". It is pronounced /ˈbɛtɪŋ/ — BET-ing. It carries one recorded sense.
preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
“led a dissipated life”
“a betting man”
“a card-playing son of a bitch”
“a gambling fool”
“sporting gents and their ladies”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for betting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.