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wyng

wyng is the obsolete form of wing.

Meaning of wing

Noun

wing (countable and uncountable, plural wings)

  1. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly.
    • The bird was flapping its wings
  2. A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish.
  3. (slang) Human arm.
  4. Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
    • I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.
  5. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
  6. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.

See all 46 meanings of wing

Forms of wyng

pluralwyngs

Questions about wyng

What is wyng the obsolete form of?
Wyng is the obsolete form of wing.

Words near wyng in the dictionary

  1. Wyndi
  2. wynds
  3. wyne
  4. Wyneden
  5. wynes
  6. wyng
  7. wynge
  8. wynges
  9. wyngs
  10. wyngz
  11. Wynia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wyng (page history and authors); wing (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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