varnishing
noun, verb
varnishing is a noun meaning “An application of varnish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-R-N-I-S-H-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of varnishing is varnishings.
What does varnishing mean?
noun
- 1
An application of varnish.
The old wooden table was given regular varnishings.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of varnish
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of varnishing
- varnishings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is varnishing?
Varnishing appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).