Definitions
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Employ color coding (features vs. benefits, mandatories vs. desirables -- or all deadlines in red); traceable templates (a perfect circle or a lightning bolt can be a whiteboard shocker); a cool rendering (learn to draw one thing amazingly well and then show it off); or a personal "wingding" (adopt a distinctive bullet point that makes your points your way).”
“April 5th, 2010 at 6: 33 pm tombaker says: goofballs. go right ahead with your wingding there, and see what it “proves” to anyone.”
“The Capulets' ball becomes a ferociously Dionysiac wingding, and every opportunity is made to highlight the play's sexual imagery, not least in the performance of Jonjo O'Neill's brilliantly manic Mercutio.”
“Something about it, other than the wingding censoring, struck me as wrong and I spent the rest of my drive home thinking about it.”
“Obama fulfills a campaign promise and gives a wingding of a speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, Egypt.”
The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Obama's Second Hundred Days
“In late May, Emaline said maybe it was time they had that wingding.”
“He wanted to throw a wingding on the spot, but Emaline persuaded him to hold off until the crops were in.”
“This wingding had been his idea, he should be with their friends and neighbors.”
“Emaline laughed at the way Juanita pronounced wingding.”
“We met briefly at that poetry wingding at the 92nd Street Y a few tulip bubbles ago.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wingding’.
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Things with wings
For fanciful birds, see reesetee's •Open List: Flights of Fancy.
For chickens, see Chickens.
For birds endemic to the United States and/or North America, see reesetee's Mo...airplane, dragonfly, pegasus, butterfly, Buffalo, robot bomb, periodical cicada, caduceus, angel, those flying monk..., cherub, housefly and 52 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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xyzprincess's Words
crabwise, virtu, peripatetic, idyll, trencherman, equivocate, flummery, hoi polloi, pixilated, albatross, wangle, bodacious and 170 more...
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Double Trouble
Reduplicatives and more.
splish-splash, hip-hop, kit-kat, dingaling, hugger-mugger, even-steven, tit for tat, higgledy-piggledy, dilly-dally, boogie-woogie, knick-knack, mai tai and 131 more...
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How do you like Kipling?
Words which fit the joke format: "How do you like X-in(g)? I don't know, I've never X-ed".
kipling, duckling, fingerling, groundling, chickling, chitterling, changeling, gosling, yearling, hireling, inkling, quisling and 98 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, W
washboard, winterbourne, winze, wirble, waterway, windrow, winceyette, waft, whiffletree, wheelbarrow, whicker, wacky and 170 more...
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All Those Jazz Words
Words coined or popularized during the Roaring '20s.
back-seat driver, jalopy, step on it, cop a plea, fuzz, gimmick, hijack, speakeasy, to take (someone)..., cockeyed, scofflaw, shellacked and 74 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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pep's Words
metamorphosis, fanciful, velveteen, pandemic, parallel, crisp, administrator, wingding, auditorium, swatch, palimpsest
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Random for Ransom
A glossary dedicated to curiously creative confabulations of the monosyllabic double barrels and clever quips known on occasion to tickle my fancy in part due to the innate human instinct to create...
criss-cross apple..., a high old time, flim-flam, bada-bing, jiggery-pokery, hocus-pocus, henny-penny, teeny weeny, fancy-shmancy, wingding, okey-dokey, lovey-dovey and 4 more...
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replications
holus-bolus, push-puller, riffraff, ricky-ticky, fuzzy-wuzzy, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, airy-fairy, hugger-mugger, fuddy-duddy, knick-knack, roly-poly and 4 more...
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hobohemia
community or life of hobos
wingding, moniker, mulligan, flophouse, gunsel, bazoo, bindle
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wingding.
bilby *tries to shake noise out of head* Oct 25, 2008