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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 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.