whing

The high-pitched ringing sound of an object as it whizzes past.

Noun

  1. The high-pitched ringing sound of an object as it whizzes past.
    • "Whing, whing," went the Spaniard's shot, like so many humming-tops, through the rigging far above their heads. - 1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh:

Origin

Onomatopoeic.

Forms

whings

Noun alt of, obsolete

  1. Obsolete spelling of wing.
    • The fruite is long, flat, and thinne, almost lyke to a feather of a small birde, or lyke the whing of a grashopper. - 1578, Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe herball or historie of plantes:
    • Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims? - 1634 (first...
    • 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 - 1791, letter from Colonel Darke to George Washington, quoted in Theodore...

Origin

See wing.

Forms

whings

Verb

  1. To move with great force or speed.

Forms

whings whinging whinged