Definitions for flocking
flocking
flock·ing
Spelling: [flok-ing]
IPA: /ˈflɒk ɪŋ/
Flocking is a 8 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.
You can make 206 anagrams from letters in flocking (cfgiklno).
Definitions for flocking
noun
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a velvetlike pattern produced on wallpaper or cloth decorated with flock.
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flock2 (def 3).
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a number of animals of one kind, especially sheep, goats, or birds, that keep or feed together or are herded together.
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a large number of people; crowd.
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a large group of things:
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the Christian church in relation to Christ.
a single congregation in relation to its pastor.
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Archaic. a band or company of persons.
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a lock or tuft of wool, hair, cotton, etc.
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(sometimes used with a plural verb) wool refuse, shearings of cloth, old cloth torn to pieces, or the like, for upholstering furniture, stuffing mattresses, etc.
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Also called flocking. (sometimes used with a plural verb) finely powdered wool, cloth, etc., used for producing a velvetlike pattern on wallpaper or cloth or for coating metal.
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floc (def 1).
verb (used with object)
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to stuff with flock, as a mattress.
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to decorate or coat with flock, as wallpaper, cloth, or metal.
verb (used without object)
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to gather or go in a flock or crowd:
Origin of flocking
First recorded in 1870-75; flock2 + -ing1
Examples for flocking
Fashion designers, models, and bloggers are flocking to New York to check out the Fall/Winter 2014 runways.
This explains why people are not flocking in large numbers to California anymore.
We passed immense crowds of people, who were flocking to the same place.
On this occasion they had been flocking into Sulaco for a week past.
The Bishop is mad about it, and Basil and all the picked men are flocking to him.
Indeed, since then, Chinese tourists have been flocking to Copenhagen.
The courtiers were flocking to the Luxembourg, in hopes of some advantage to themselves.
Today immigrants are flocking to such unlikely places as Nashville, Richmond, Louisville, and Charlotte.
Mamet: Now we see the Liberal Young [caps in originals - a weakness of his] not flocking but stampeding into film schools.
Men were flocking to that region from all parts of the earth.