Present participle of charivari; the act of performing or participating in a charivari.
Formed by adding the present participle suffix -ing to the verb form of charivari, following standard English verb conjugation patterns that emerged as the noun became increasingly used as a verb.
This word shows how English speakers naturally adapt words to new grammatical forms—by the time you need to describe the ongoing action, you just add -ing and let speakers understand the context.
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