bing

The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.

Interjection

  1. The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface.
  2. The high-pitched sound made by a bell being struck.
    • Toronto Star, "Ryanair looking at standing 'seats,' pay toilets", 2 July 2010, Jim Rankin Bing! Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes the captain will turn off the fasten seatbelt sign, but for your own safety we...

Origin

Onomatopoeia, variously of a bouncing sound or a bell.

Forms

ping ding bong

Noun countable, slang

  1. Solitary confinement.
  2. A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
  3. The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
  4. A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore.

Origin

From Middle English bing, binge, benge (also as Middle English byngger, bengere (“grain bin, hopper”)), from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.

Forms

bings

Derived

pit bing

Noun Entry 3

  1. The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
  2. The sound made by a bounce.
  3. A bounce.

Forms

bings ping ding bong

Derived

bingle

Verb dated, dialectal

  1. To go; walk; come; run.

Origin

Origin obscure. Compare Scots bin (“to move speedily with noise”).

Forms

bings binging binged

Verb Entry 5

  1. To bounce.

Forms

bings binging binged ping ding bong

Related

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