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Etymology 1[edit]
Reduplication of wing (“arm”).
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Noun[edit]
wingding (plural wingdings)
- (slang) A fit or spasm.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 243:
- ‘She threw a wingding. Looked like a mild epileptic fit to me.’
- (slang) A party.
- 1982, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly:
- Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground
Translations[edit]
party — see party
Further reading[edit]
- Jonathon Green (2024) “wing-ding n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Etymology 2[edit]
After the Wingdings font developed by Microsoft in 1990. Its name was presumably derived from dingbat and earlier senses of wingding.
Noun[edit]
wingding (plural wingdings)
- (computing, typography) A dingbat (ornamental typographical symbol), especially one from the Wingdings font.
- 2004, Mary Millhollon, Katherine Murray, Microsoft Office Word 2003 Inside Out, page 202:
- 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 […]
- 2011, Suzanne Gilad, Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies, page 179:
- Don't know a wingding from a ring-a-ding-ding? Check out one of the For Dummies books on Microsoft Office.