Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- On the wing.
Wiktionary
- adv. On the wing; flying; fluttering.
- v. present participle of awe.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. On the wing; flying; fluttering.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
Etymologies
- a- + wing (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The longer the performance went on, the more girly my "awing" became.”
“Martin drank on silently, biting out his orders and invitations and awing the barkeeper, an effeminate country youngster with watery blue eyes and hair parted in the middle.”
“Gorgeous African prints were draped, pleated, wrapped and ruffled to create beautiful and wearable designs that had us ooing and awing in our seats.”
“By car, by bus, by foot, they came this week, snapping pictures and oohing and awing in every language imaginable.”
“The most awing act I saw this week was the Blind Boys of Alabama, on Wednesday night.”
“The awing counter-factual here is that if youth showed up this election the way they did in 2010, then the Democrats would in all likelihood maintain control of the House.”
The Huffington Post: Meredith Bagby: Losing the Youth Vote Means Losing the House
“They single-handedly led the resurgence of our National Pastime and they did so by awing us with their superhuman strength.”
“It is, however, presented surprisingly well, awing the reader and making him think, at which point "Brasyl" becomes one of those addictive can't-put-it-down books.”
“He twisted from her and reared up with an awing fury against the vampires.”
Simon & Schuster: Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
“There were creatures afoot or awing that had never been known before to have ventured out in the dark.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘awing’.
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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Nice.007
avalanche, cougar, Déjà vu, gargantuan, cynophobia, boudoir, existentialism, awing
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