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winged | whinged |

As an adjective winged

is (poetic).

As a verb whinged is

(whing).

winged

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

*

Adjective

(-)
  • Having wings.
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  • Flying or soaring as if on wings.
  • Swift.
  • (in combination) having wings of a specified kind
    • weak-winged
  • (in combination) having the specified number of wings
    • The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.

    Etymology 2

    See (wing) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wing)

    • Anagrams

    *

    whinged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (whing)
  • (whinge)

    • 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