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wingy

wingy adjective: winged, or as if winged; inclined to fly.

Adjective

wingy (comparative more wingy, superlative most wingy)

  1. (archaic) Winged, or as if winged; inclined to fly.
    • The path that leads, where, hung ſublime, / And ſeen afar, youth's gallant trophies, bright / In Fancy's rainbow ray, invite / His wingy nerves to climb.1780, James Beattie, “Ode to Hope”, in Poems on Several Occasions, 4th edition, London: […] T. Strahan, T. Crowder, S. Becket, J. Lownds, T. Robinson, G. Clarke, →OCLC, stanza II.I., page 52
    • —and I ran up and down in the scale of semibreves and minims that I had heard, with the one long, sweet trill transfusing life on earth into heavenly existence, and I felt very wingy, very much as if I could take up the tower, standing high and square out there, and carry it, "like Loretto's...1862, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862

Noun

wingy (plural wingies)

  1. (slang) One who has an amputated arm or arms.
    • He was crippled in one leg, which fact accounted for his moniker, for on the Road a lame man is a gimpy; even as a one-armed man is a wingy.1925, Glen Hawthorne Mullin, Adventures of a Scholar Tramp, page 187
    • All the golfers shown played in the N.Z. Annual "wingies" and "limbies" tournament, total number of competitors, 40.1968, George Bremner Abel, Walking Skills for Amputees, page 57
  2. (slang) One who has a wing position.
    • Wingies, don't you love the lead who immediately rudders you out to route at 500 feet and then turns into you while giving a channel change.1985, TAC Attack, page 19
    • Damn it all, I know you're right, Dar, but I've never lost a wingy before.2000, David Corbett, Shield of Lantius, →ISBN, page 151

wingy meaning in Urdu

wingy in Urdu

پردار, پر جیسا

Forms of wingy

Adjective
comparativemore wingy
superlativemost wingy
Noun
pluralwingies

Origin of wingy

From wing + -y.

Words formed from wingy

Questions about wingy

What does wingy mean?
Wingy means winged, or as if winged; inclined to fly.
What is wingy in Urdu?
Wingy in Urdu is پردار, پر جیسا. See Wingy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is wingy?
Wingy can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near wingy in the dictionary

  1. wingwalkers
  2. wingwang
  3. wingwangs
  4. wingwoman
  5. wingwomen
  6. wingy
  7. wingèd
  8. Winhall
  9. Winham
  10. Winhead
  11. Winheads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wingy (page history and authors); wingy (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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