topping

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of top

Adjective

• wonderful
• Assuming superiority; proud.

Noun

• Any food item added on top of another, such as sprinkles on ice cream or pepperoni on pizza.
• The act of cutting off the top of something.
• The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.
• Either of the cables that support the ends of a spar or boom.
• The tail of an artificial fly.

Origin

• From Middle English toppyng; equivalent to top + -ing.