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Examples
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It has a grocer and neighbors who go "porching" to drop in on each other and chat.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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In fact, if you look at just along the line of these trees, you can also see a bug chunk of fence and porching that has been left propped up against a tree.
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You talk like that, and somebody'll be thinkin 'I go porching. "
Burr Junior George Manville Fenn 1870
gangerh commented on the word porching
pp. Relaxing or socializing on the front porch of a house.
—porch v.
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"We've even coined a new word, 'porching,' which describes a spontaneous social activity that originates when people gather on porches," she explained.
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March 10, 2012
dontcry commented on the word porching
I can't believe I wasn't referenced on this! I am outraged! Nobody porches like me. I have two porches which often host porching events simultaneously! I have been porching for decades. My ferns, wicker, swings, rockers, and cucumber sandwiches are LORE. Are you kidding me? wordspy - it is on!
March 12, 2012
blafferty commented on the word porching
dontcry is correct. All porch-related activities. Long-standing rule.
March 12, 2012
yarb commented on the word porching
To sleep, porching to dream?
March 12, 2012
gangerh commented on the word porching
I could think of no-one but you, 'cry as I contemplated posting on wordnik what I had read on wordspy. I have to admit, though, that the machinations of wordnik confound me and I sometimes just cannot fathom how to connect directly with anyone as previously, if indeed they are still there.
March 13, 2012
fbharjo commented on the word porching
Is there such a thing as deep screen porching, not encroaching or poaching as one is approaching?
I grew up in the summer time sleeping on sleeping porches listening to summer thunder approaching but not encroaching on my liminal dreams.
I remember sitting on Camp Melody Pines' front porch watching a ancient ponderosa pine being splintered by a single stroke of enlightening and in end mid beginning darkening lightening.
That dug less a fir piece
screened sleeping porches
my father's school
March 13, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word porching
When I look up "porching" in the dictionary,* I find dontcry's name there.**
*or, you know, on this site
**because I put it in the tags
March 13, 2012