winge

See also: Winge

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Verb

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

winge (plural winges)

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

Anagrams

• Ewing, Ngwei, gwine

Hunsrik

Verb

winge

1. to scrub

Conjugation

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.

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Middle English

Alternative forms

• wynge, wyng, wenge, whynge, weng, wengge, wing, wynghe

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

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

References

• “wing(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-22.