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wingdinger

wingdinger noun: a particularly energetic and boisterous event.

Noun

wingdinger (plural wingdingers)

  1. (US, slang) A particularly energetic and boisterous event.
    • The recent Tebaldi-Callas fracas was largely fluff compared with some of the wingdingers that have happened in the past, but it was enough fun to command headline space, and stories in Time.1961, Alan Wagner, Prima Donnas and Other Wild Beasts, Larchmont, N.Y.: Argonaut Books, page 70
    • One didn't sign up to be a fall guy in Bridesmaids Creek willy-nilly. This crew could think up some wingdingers.2015, Tina Leonard, The Cowboy SEAL's Triplets, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 48

Forms of wingdinger

pluralwingdingers

Origin of wingdinger

From wingding + -er.

Questions about wingdinger

What does wingdinger mean?
Wingdinger means a particularly energetic and boisterous event.
What part of speech is wingdinger?
Wingdinger is a noun.
What is the plural of wingdinger?
The plural of wingdinger is wingdingers.

Words near wingdinger in the dictionary

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

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