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wing'd

wing'd is the obsolete spelling of winged.

Meaning of winged

Adjective

winged (not comparable)

  1. Having wings.
    • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around...2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32
    1. (in-compounds) Having wings of a specified kind.
      • weak-winged
    2. (in-compounds) Having the specified number of wings.
      • The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.
  2. Flying or soaring as if on wings.
  3. Swift.
    • Come Tamburlain, now whet thy winged ſword
      And lift thy loftie arme into the cloudes,
      That it may reach the King of Perſeas crowne,
      And ſet it ſafe on my victorious head.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

Questions about wing'd

What is wing'd the obsolete spelling of?
Wing'd is the obsolete spelling of winged.

Words near wing'd in the dictionary

  1. wing walkers
  2. wing walking
  3. wing wall
  4. wing walls
  5. wing warping
  6. wing'd
  7. wing-and-wing
  8. wing-back
  9. wing-backs
  10. wing-footed
  11. wing-handed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wing'd (page history and authors); winged (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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