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Definition of 'whing'English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Noun
( en-noun)
A high-pitched ringing sound
* 1855: Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh
- " Whing', ' whing ," went the Spaniard's shot, like so many humming-tops, through the rigging far above their heads. . .
Verb
( en-verb)
To move with great force or speed
Etymology 2
See .
Noun
( en-noun)
* 1578: Henry Lyte (tr.), A Niewe herball or historie of plantes
- The fruite is long, flat, and thinne, almost lyke to a feather of a small birde, or lyke the whing of a grashopper.
* 1791: letter from Colonel Darke to George Washington, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West , vol. 4 (1896)
- we incamped in two Lines about 60 yards apart the Right whing in frunt Commanded by General Butler, the Left in the Rear which I commanded
* 1869: James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, with a glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect
- When tha dumbledores hummin, craup out o’ tha cobwâll
*:: An’ shakin ther whings , thâ vleed vooäth an’ awâ.
References
* OED 2nd edition 1989
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