FLINGING

  

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FLINGING

Definition: FLINGING

FLINGING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Fling

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FLINGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

 

Crosswords: FLINGING

English words defined with "FLINGING": fling. (references)

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Modern Usage: FLINGING

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Without rules, we all might as well be up in a tree flinging our crap at each other (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: FLINGING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Flinging Monkeys at the Coconuts: A Traveler's Companion of Quotations (reference)

  • Flinging Wide the Eyed Universe: Poems (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FLINGING

"FLINGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.40% of the time. "FLINGING" is used about 154 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)97.4%15025,701
Noun (proper)1.95%3202,518
Noun (singular)0.65%1339,140
                    Total100.00%154N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: FLINGING

Expression using "FLINGING": Figure flinging. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "FLINGING": flinging-up.

Ending with "FLINGING": bogger-flinging, limb-flinging.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FLINGING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

flinging

8

cow flinging

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FLINGING

Language Translations for "FLINGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

ç"© (Flicked, Flicking, fling, Flung). (various references)

   

German

  

werfend (chucking, cockling, foaling, pitching, tossing, whelping), schleudernd (centrifuging, darting, hurling, slinging, tossing). (various references)

   

Italian

  

lancio (casting, dropping, flaw, hurling, jump, launching, pitch, putting, shooting, shot, skip, throw, throwing). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

ë˜ì§ (Plunging, slinging, throw, Throwing, tossing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingingflay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

azvârlire (cast, casting, chuck, hurl, throw, throwing). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: FLINGING

Derivations

Words ending with "FLINGING": upflinging. (additional references)


Misspellings

"FLINGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: finging, flinting. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FLINGING"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "FLINGING" (pronounced fli"nging)
5-l i" ng i ngclinging, slinging.
4-i" ng i ngbringing, ringing, singing, springing, stinging, stringing, swinging, winging, wringing.
3-ng i ngbanging, belonging, clanging, ganging, hanging, haranguing, longing, mudslinging, overhanging, prolonging, upbringing.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: FLINGING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-g-g-i-i-l-n-n"

-2 letters: filing, fining, lignin, lining.

-3 letters: fling, linin.

-4 letters: ling, linn.

-5 letters: fig, fil, fin, gig, gin, inn, lin, nil.

 Words containing the letters "f-g-g-i-i-l-n-n"
 

+1 letter: finagling, ingulfing.

 

+2 letters: fingerling, lignifying, upflinging.

 

+3 letters: fingerlings, folksinging.

 

+4 letters: folksingings.

 

+5 letters: frighteningly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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