Contextualizebeta

flinger

noun

Etymology

From fling + -er.

  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 flinger — “fling + er”

Definitions

  1. One who flings or hurls something.

  2. One who jeers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for flinger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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