bingy
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of bingy
First recorded in 1850–55, bingy is from the Dharuk word bi-ndí
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The Colonel was to haunt Harold Ickes like the cloaked villain in a melodrama, sometimes under the Ickesian aliases of "McComic" or "Bilious Bertie, the bingy bully."
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