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flingy

adj

Etymology

From fling + -y.

  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 flingy — “fling + y”

Definitions

  1. Characterized by flinging.

    • Red Notes/Get Wreck lost whatever form I imagined it had in the cavernous Lepercq Space at Brooklyn Academy and became a stupefying recital of flingy spurts of motion and meaningless handling of props like cigarettes and fans.

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