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Carnival vs Wingding - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between carnival and wingding

is that carnival is a festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment while wingding is a fit or spasm.

As a proper noun Carnival

is the season just before the beginning of the Roman Catholic season of Lent, when New Orleans has its Mardi Gras carnival.

carnival

English

(wikipedia carnival)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
  • (US English) a traveling amusement park, called a funfair in UK English.

    • Derived terms

    * carnival glass * carny * carnivalesque * carnivalistic

    See also

    *

    wingding

    English

    Alternative forms

    * whingding * whing ding * wing ding

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fit or spasm.
  • *1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 243:
  • *:‘She threw a wingding . Looked like a mild epileptic fit to me.’
  • A party.

    • Derived terms

    * throw a wingding