winge

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English

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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winge (third-person singular simple present winges, present participle wingeing or winging, simple past and past participle winged)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang) Alternative form of whinge
    • 1992, Sky Phillips, Secret mission to Melbourne, November, 1941, page 45:
      Mostly, they were wingeing about the lousy cook and the same thing served too often
    • 1993, Michael Fisher, The Nightmare Man, page 169:
      His wife will winge her bloody head off, but Nev will come good.
    • 2002, Diana Wynne Jones, A Tale of Time City, page 41:
      "I'm miserable," Sam proclaimed, plodding behind with his shoelace flapping. "Nobody ever gives me butter-pies when I need them." / "Shut up," said Jonathan. "Stop wingeing."

Noun

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winge (plural winges)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang) Alternative form of whinge

Anagrams

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Hunsrik

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Verb

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winge

  1. to scrub

Conjugation

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Regular
infinitive winge
participle gewung
auxiliary hon
present
indicative
imperative
ich winge
du wingst wing
er/sie/es wingd
meer winge
deer wingd wingd
sie winge
The use of the present participle is uncommon, but can be made with the suffix -end.

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vængr, from Proto-Germanic *wēngijaz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈwinɡ(ə)/, /ˈwɛnɡ(ə)/, /ˈwɛːnɡ(ə)/

Noun

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winge (plural winges or (early) wyngen)

  1. A wing (arm enabling flight; used in cooking and medicine).
    • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎[1], published c. 1410, Apocalips 4:8, page 118v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
      ⁊ þe foure beeſtis hadden euery of hem ſixe wyngis / ⁊ al aboute and wiþ inne þei weren ful of iȝen / ⁊ þei hadden not reſte · dai ⁊ nyȝt, ſeiynge · hooli · hooli · hooli .· þe loꝛd god almyȝti / þat was ⁊ þat is .· ⁊ þat is to comynge
      And all of the four beasts had six wings, and they were covered with eyes across all their body; and they didn't rest, day or night, in saying: "Holy, holy, holy, the almighty Lord God, who was, who is, and who will come".
  2. A flank or section of an army.
  3. (figurative) A method or means of flight.
  4. (figurative) A shelter or refuge (as a bird guards its young)
  5. (rare) An artificial wing; a device enabling flight.
  6. (rare, Late Middle English) A portion; a section.
  7. (rare, Late Middle English) A projection; a spur.

Descendants

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  • English: wing
  • Scots: weeng
  • Yola: wing

References

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