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flingee

noun

Etymology

From fling + -ee.

  1. derived from *pel-✻
  2. derived from *pleh₂k-✻ — “to beat”
  3. derived from *flangijaną✻ — “to beat, whip”
  4. derived from flengja — “to whip”
  5. inherited from flyngen
  6. suffixed as flingee — “fling + ee”

Definitions

  1. A person with whom one has a fling, or casual romance.

    • He never thought of her as temporary or a flingee.
    • Jay was trying to track down the flingees. Denise had never married, nor had she taken another long-term lover after Dennis's birth, though she had been seen in fashionable places with a variety of leading men.
    • Brendy pointed out to me that a fling is different from an affair. 'A fling is definitely not serious—it's meant to be temporary and the flingees remain good friends afterwards.'

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA