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flingy

flingy adjective: characterized by flinging.

Adjective

flingy (comparative flingier, superlative flingiest)

  1. Characterized by flinging.
    • Red Notes/Get Wreck lost whatever form I imagined it had in the cavernous Lepercq Space at Brooklyn Academy and became a stupefying recital of flingy spurts of motion and meaningless handling of props like cigarettes and fans.1991, Marcia B. Siegel, The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976-1982, page 121

Forms of flingy

comparativeflingier
superlativeflingiest

Origin of flingy

From fling + -y.

Questions about flingy

What does flingy mean?
Flingy means characterized by flinging.
What part of speech is flingy?
Flingy is an adjective.

Words near flingy in the dictionary

  1. flinging
  2. flinging out
  3. flingings
  4. flings
  5. flings out
  6. flingy
  7. Flink
  8. flinkite
  9. flinkites
  10. Flinks
  11. Flinn

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