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pingy

pingy adjective: characterised by ping sounds.

Adjective

pingy (comparative more pingy, superlative most pingy)

  1. Characterised by ping sounds.
    • Another quality that bothers me is Brendel's inconsistent sonority. The treble is hard and pingy; the midrange is weighed down with a booming bass.1979, High Fidelity Musical America, volume 29, number 2, page 127

Forms of pingy

comparativemore pingy
superlativemost pingy

Origin of pingy

From ping + -y.

Questions about pingy

What does pingy mean?
Pingy means characterised by ping sounds.
What part of speech is pingy?
Pingy is an adjective.

Words near pingy in the dictionary

  1. pinguipedids
  2. pinguitude
  3. Pingwu
  4. Pingxi
  5. Pingxiang
  6. pingy
  7. Pingyang
  8. pingyangmycin
  9. Pingyao
  10. Pingyu
  11. Pingyuan

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