Word.ws English Dictionary

wingding

wingding noun: a fit or spasm.

Noun (1)

wingding (plural wingdings)

  1. (slang) A fit or spasm.
    • ‘She threw a wingding. Looked like a mild epileptic fit to me.’1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 243
  2. (slang) A party.
    • Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground1982, Donald Fagen, “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly

Noun (2)

wingding (plural wingdings)

  1. A dingbat (ornamental typographical symbol), especially one from the Wingdings font.
    • Instead of going through the menu selections needed to insert a special symbol like a Wingding, you can rely on AutoCorrect to substitute the symbol for the text you type […]2004, Mary Millhollon, Katherine Murray, Microsoft Office Word 2003 Inside Out, page 202
    • Don't know a wingding from a ring-a-ding-ding? Check out one of the For Dummies books on Microsoft Office.2011, Suzanne Gilad, Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies, page 179

Noun (3) capitalized: Wingding

Wingding (plural Wingdings)

  1. (trademark) A glyph from a Wingdings font.

Forms of wingding

pluralwingdings
alternative formwhingding
alternative formwhing ding
alternative formwing ding
alternative formwing-ding
pluralWingdings

Origin of wingding

Reduplication of wing (“arm”).

After the Wingdings font developed by Microsoft in 1990. Its name was presumably derived from dingbat and earlier senses of wingding.

Introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.

Questions about wingding

What does wingding mean?
Wingding means a fit or spasm.
What part of speech is wingding?
Wingding is a noun.
What is the plural of wingding?
The plural of wingding is wingdings.

Words near wingding in the dictionary

  1. wingchairs
  2. wingco
  3. wingcos
  4. wingcuck
  5. wingcucks
  6. wingding
  7. wingdinger
  8. wingdingers
  9. wingdings
  10. wingdog
  11. wingdogs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wingding (page history and authors); Wingding (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-wingding.ogg.

Cite this entry: “wingding.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wingding. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.