noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from gerund of don to do — more at do
1.
a. : the act of performing or executing : action
art is primarily not a contemplation but a doing — Havelock Ellis
any such grandiose plan will take some doing — Green Peyton
b. : the result of such an action
the picture and the story I recognized as my father's doing — Ben Riker
2. doings plural
a. : things that are done or that occur : acts , deeds, events
the daily doings of the forge and field and market — H.O.Taylor
b. dialect : social activities
went to the doings at the schoolhouse Saturday night
3. doings plural , dialect : materials for a dish or meal : food especially when made up into a dish
a breakfast of corn doings and flapjacks