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blingy

blingy adjective: extravagantly showy; shiny, glittery.

Adjective

blingy (comparative blingier, superlative blingiest)

  1. (informal) Extravagantly showy; shiny, glittery.
    • Kanye, who had a blingy neck chain with Jesus icon - a Jesus Christ with aquatic blue, diamond eyes - tried, unsuccessfully, to get the jeweller to turn Christ's eyes darker and the whole icon a shade darker than it was.2007, Bongani Madondo, Hot type: icons, artists, and god-figurines
    • Adam Perry Lang is at the opposite end of the grilling spectrum, a blingy S.U.V. to Mallmann’s muddy old Land Rover.2009 May 31, Christine Muhlke, “Cookbooks”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    blinging

Synonyms of blingy

Forms of blingy

comparativeblingier
superlativeblingiest

Origin of blingy

From bling + -y.

Words formed from blingy

Questions about blingy

What does blingy mean?
Blingy means extravagantly showy; shiny, glittery.
What part of speech is blingy?
Blingy is an adjective.

Words near blingy in the dictionary

  1. Blinglish
  2. blingmobile
  3. blingmobiles
  4. blings out
  5. blings up
  6. blingy
  7. blini
  8. blinis
  9. blink
  10. blink comparator
  11. blink first

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