Offing
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wiktionary
off + ing. Attested since the 1620s. Early texts also spell the term offin and offen.
etymonline
offing (n.)
"the more distant part of the open sea as seen from the shore," 1620s, a nautical term, from off (q.v.) + noun suffix -ing (1). Outside sea-jargon, it survives in the phrase in the offing (1779) which originally meant "in the distant future;" the modern sense of "impending" developed by 1914.
