blowing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of blow

noun

1. The act of one who blows, or that which blows.

   “the blowings of a trumpet”

   “the puffings and blowings of an unfit runner”

   “[…] the tea had been poured from the cups into the deep saucers from which it would have been drunk with genteel blowings and whiffings, according to the custom of the time.”