warming

Etymology 1

From Middle English warminge, warmynge, from Old English wærmiġende, wermende, wyrmende, present participle of Old English wyrman, wirman (“to warm”), equivalent to warm + -ing.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of warm

Etymology 2

From Middle English warmyng, warmynge, from Old English wærming, wirming, equivalent to warm + -ing.

noun

1. A small rise in temperature.
2. (slang) A beating; a thrashing.
   More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained. 2017, Harry Goulding, A Grimsby Life - Part 1: Henry the Ninth, page 193