SPASSING

PRONUNCIATION: (PAS-ing, PAH-sing)

MEANING: adverb: To a surpassing degree.
adjective: Transitory or cursory.
noun: The act, process, or instance of transition, movement, or transference from one state, place, time, or condition to another.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French passer, from Latin passare (to pass), from passus (step, pace). Earliest documented use: 1340.
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PASTSING - ruminating on might-have-beens

PASHING - imaginative play pretending to be a middle-eastern potentate

P.A. SING - the doctors' assistants put on a musical show