Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having wings.
- Soaring as on wings; aspiring; lofty.
- Rapid; swift.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having wings; rapid.
- adjective Obs. or R. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; volatile airy.
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- adjective archaic
Winged , or as if winged; inclined tofly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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TOOGOOD: No -- after I left, after -- first of all, after we left the parking lot, Martha said that her wingy, which is a pigtail, was messed up, and I said, I'm sorry, Martha, I shouldn't have pulled your hair.
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None of the central, lending or investment bankers, academic economists or financial media, or supposedly economically literate politicians saw this crisis coming, except for a couple of wingy professors and hedge fund managers, who took the concept of voices in the wilderness to Hansel and Gretel forest depths.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011
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Time has taught me that there is no limit to how wingy wingers in America can get.
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The increasingly wingy Phyllis Chesler (who once claimed to have uncovered a fifth column of Muslim taxi drivers) joins the fray as well, insisting that "honour killings" are in a class by themselves.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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Lots of right-wingy types embrace him, and he becomes the wild-eyed public mouthpiece for whatever weird amalgam of conservative political philosophy and raw fear-mongering he can concentrate on long enough to start crying about.
John Shore: And Yada, Yada, Yada ... Glenn Beck's a Christian 2010
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The whole nature of the fae is that they're light and airy, ethereal, wingy thingies that hardly touch ground.
Revenge of the Iron Fairies Anne Johnson 2009
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The whole nature of the fae is that they're light and airy, ethereal, wingy thingies that hardly touch ground.
Archive 2009-03-01 Anne Johnson 2009
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The increasingly wingy Phyllis Chesler who once claimed to have uncovered a fifth column of Muslim taxi drivers joins the fray as well, insisting that "honour killings" are in a class by themselves.
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Never mind that Larouche is neither left-wing nor right-wing but just plain wingy.
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But you seem to ignore/forget the inconvenient truth that you left wingy friends do the same thing ....
Sound Politics: The 20 Minute Anti-War Commercial On KUOW 2007
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