cartooning

noun

car·​toon·​ing kär-ˈtü-niŋ 

: the art of drawing cartoons, comic strips, or comic books

Elected to the Harvard Lampoon on the strength of his cartooning, he rose to become its president …

—John Updike, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 1997

Word History

First Known Use

1846, in the meaning defined above

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Rhymes for cartooning

• ballooning
• communing
• impugning
• crooning
• mooning
• pruning
• spooning
• swooning
• tuning