whing

== English == === Etymology 1 === Onomatopoeic. ==== Noun ==== whing (plural whings) The high-pitched ringing sound of an object as it whizzes past. ==== Verb ==== whing (third-person singular simple present whings, present participle whinging, simple past and past participle whinged) To move with great force or speed. === Etymology 2 === See wing. ==== Noun ==== whing (plural whings) Obsolete spelling of wing. 1791, letter from Colonel Darke to George Washington, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, vol. 4 (1896): we incamped in two Lines about 60 yards apart the Right whing in frunt Commanded by General Butler, the Left in the Rear which I commanded 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, with a glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect: When tha dumbledores hummin, craup out o’ tha cobwâll An’ shakin ther whings, thâ vleed vooäth an’ awâ. === References === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “whing”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.