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Revelry vs Wingding - What's the difference?

revelry | wingding | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between revelry and wingding

is that revelry is joyful merry-making while wingding is a fit or spasm.

revelry

English

Noun

(revelries)
  • Joyful merry-making.
  • * 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
    • The women pale and staring under the sun. In plain skirts, drab shoes. In hair scarves. Their drunken revelry jars.

    Synonyms

    * celebration, festivity, revelment

    Derived terms

    * revelrous

    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