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wingdings

wingdings is the plural of wingding.

Meaning of wingding

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Wingdings

Wingdings

  1. (trademark) A dingbat font in which each character is represented by an unrelated symbol.

Noun capitalized: Wingdings

Wingdings

  1. (plural) plural of Wingding

Origin of wingdings

Blend of wing + dingbat, introduced as a trademark by Microsoft.

Questions about wingdings

What does wingdings mean?
Wingdings means a dingbat font in which each character is represented by an unrelated symbol.
What is wingdings the plural of?
Wingdings is the plural of wingding.
What part of speech is wingdings?
Wingdings can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near wingdings in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wingdings (page history and authors); Wingdings (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.

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