winge

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Verb

winge (third-person singular simple present winges, present participle wingeing or winging, simple past and past participle winged)

1. To cringe.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, 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."

Anagrams

• Ewing, Ngwei, gwine

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Old Norse *víngi, a form of vængr, from Proto-Germanic *wēingô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwinɡ(ə)/, /ˈwɛnɡ(ə)/

Noun

winge (plural winges or wyngen)

1. A wing (arm that enables aviation):
   1. (cooking) The wing of an animal served as food.
   2. (medicine) The wing of an animal used as a medical ingredient.
2. An object that looks like a wing; a depiction of a wing.
3. A flank, section or portion of an army; a part of a troop.
4. (figuratively) Any method of flight or aviation.
5. (figuratively) A shelter, safeguard or refuge (as a bird guards its young)
6. (rare, Late ME) A section or portion of something other than an army.
7. (rare) An mechanical or synthetic wing; a device designed to enable flight.
8. (rare) An object of little significance.