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say it: AHY-ur-ning
ironing is a noun meaning "garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed". It is pronounced /ˈaɪɚnɪŋ/ — AHY-ur-ning. It carries 2 recorded senses.
garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed
“there was a basketful of ironing to do”
the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles
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 ironing 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.