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Flower1234 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

House sitting

I read this sentence "she is house sitting".

Is there such a word as house sitting?
  

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Please refer to the link. org/wiki/House_sitting

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  • Please refer to the link.
  • org/wiki/House_sitting
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flower1234Is there such a word as house sitting?
What a coincidence! I was just asked to do some house sitting this week!

Yes. It's a word. Two words, actually.
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I would spell it "house-sitting". I believe the term is after "babysit" (or "baby-sit"), first attested in 1947. You can also "dog-sit".
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