making

Etymology 1

From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make + -ing. Cognate with Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.

noun

1. The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
2. Process of growth or development.
   As a child, he didn’t seem like a genius in the making.

Etymology 2

From make + -ing.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of make
   1981, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn eat.