bingy
Americannoun
PLURAL
bingiesEtymology
Origin of bingy
First recorded in 1850–55, bingy is from the Dharuk word bi-ndí
Example Sentences
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“Bingy,” former teammate Footsie Walker said, “he was an original Cavalier, that’s the way to put it.”
From New York Times
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."
From Time Magazine Archive
The word had gone 'round that "old Bingy" was to get the sack, and every one was saying to himself that if they discharged a man like Bingle for being late it wouldn't be safe for any one to transgress for even the tiniest fraction of an instant.
From Project Gutenberg
The milk, too, was often “bingy,” to use a country expression for a kind of taint that is far worse than sourness, and suggests the idea that it is caused by want of cleanliness about the milk pans, rather than by the heat of the weather.
From Project Gutenberg
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