Fling

Definition: Fling

Fling

Noun

1. A usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl".

2. A brief indulgence of your impulses.

3. The act of flinging.

Verb

1. Throw with force or recklessness; "fling the frisbee".

2. Move in an abrupt or headlong manner; "He flung himself onto the sofa".

3. Indulge oneself; "I splurged on a new TV".

4. Throw or cast away; "Put away your worries".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

Synonyms: Fling

Amusement

Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore.

Disrespect

Hiss, hoot, boo, gibe, flout, jeer, scoff, gleek, taunt, sneer, quip, fling, wipe, slap in the face.

Regression

Verb: propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk, heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.

Noun: propulsion, projection; propelment; vis a tergo; push, shove; (impulse); ejaculate; ejection; throw, fling, toss, shot, discharge, shy; launch, release.

Crosswords: Fling

It was a fling. It was meaningless; like two ships passing in the night (Style and Substance; writing credit: James Grissom)

And we're going to have this transitory cow fling thing right here in Cicely (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

It's just a meaningless fling, okay (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

And so pretend a neverending summer fling (Summerfling; performing artist: K.d. lang)

And u my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling (Summerfling; performing artist: K.d. lang)

It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling (I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That); performing artist: Meat Loaf)

And every single day is just a fling (Then The Morning Comes; performing artist: Smash Mouth)

Three-Ring Fling (1958)

Fling in the Ring (1955)

Flung by a Fling (1949)

One Last Fling (1949)

The Island Fling (1947)

Books

• Highland Fling (reference)

• Isle of Skye (Highland Fling Romance) (reference)

• Laird of the Mist (Highland Fling Romance) (reference)

• The Devil of Kilmartin (Highland Fling Romance) (reference)

• The Fling (Hank the Cowdog, 38) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Big Country - Final Fling (reference)

• Emmanuelle in Space - One Last Fling (reference)

• Summer Fling (reference)

• Amazing Grace: A Real Highland Fling (reference)

• Last Fling (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Amazing Grace: Real Highland Fling (reference)

• Hard Travelin'/Final Fling (reference)

• Passionate Fling (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Let 'em have their fling. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fling a ladle at cupola. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Prussian cavalry, just come up, spring forward, fling themselves upon the enemy, sabre, cut, hack, kill, exterminate

Health

They also may fling objects across the room or strike out at walls or furniture as though they are angry or afraid. (references)

Expressions using "fling": at full fling ♦ at one fling ♦ fling about ♦ fling against ♦ fling aside ♦ fling away ♦ fling back ♦ fling dirt at smb. ♦ fling down ♦ fling down the gage ♦ fling down the gantlet ♦ fling down the gauntlet ♦ fling down the glove ♦ fling in one's teeth ♦ fling into prison ♦ fling into smth. ♦ fling off ♦ fling on ♦ fling oneself ♦ fling oneself at smb. ♦ fling oneself in smb.'s arms ♦ fling oneself on smb.'s mercy ♦ fling open ♦ fling out ♦ fling smb. a look of contempt ♦ fling smb. in prison ♦ fling smth. in one's teeth ♦ fling smth. in smb.'s teeth ♦ fling the window open ♦ fling to the winds ♦ fling up ♦ full fling ♦ have a fling ♦ have a fling at ♦ have ones fling ♦ have one's fling ♦ highland fling ♦ in full fling ♦ To fling about ♦ To fling away ♦ To fling down ♦ To fling in ♦ To fling off ♦ To fling open ♦ To fling out ♦ To fling up ♦ To have one's fling. Additional references.

Ending with "fling": first-fling.

Afrikaans

swaai (brandish, swing, wave, wave about). (various references)

Albanian

flakje (casting, disposition, hurl, pitch, throw, throwing), flakëroj (blaze, flame), flak (cast, cast off, chuck, clear out, heave, hurl, pitch, reject, scrap, throw, throw away), vërvitem, vërvit (hurl, launch, throw), vërvis (hurl, launch, throw), rras (Bury, clap, clench, cram, crib, huddle, jam, pop, ram, stuff, tamp, thrust, vice), plas (break out, crack, howl, plunk, pop, rip), përplasje (bang, bump, clap, clash, collision, crash, encounter, flap, impact, slam), përplas (bash, clash, crash, flap, grind, knock, slam), hedhje (Bob, buck, cast, chuck, dart, dash, disposal, drop, flirt, hop, hurl, jerk, launch, leap, lunge, lurch, pitch, pounce, precipitation, projection, put, skip, throw, throwing, toss), hedh (throw), hallakatje (dispersion, helter-skelter, rant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فترة إنغماس في الملذات, ‏محاولة (assay, attempt, bid, effort, endeavor, endeavour, essay, go, shot, trial, try, whirl), ‏قذف (accuse of, aspersion, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, emit, expel, extrude, extrusion, libel, malediction, malign, mud, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt, pelt with, pitch, projection, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate, vomit), ‏سخرية (burlesque, derision, gibe, humor, humour, irony, jeer, lampoon, laughter, mockery, persiflage, quip, ridicule, rub, sarcasm, scoff, scorn, shy, snap, sneer, spoof, taunt, tee-hee, tehee, twit, wit), ‏طرح أرضا (toss, trip up), ‏طرح (deduct, excrete, floor, heave, lay, molt, moult, posit, put aside, put away, reject, squirt, subtract, subtraction, take away, throw away, toss), ‏إندفع (bicker, break out, dash, flush, lunge, make, precipitate, regurgitate, rip, rush, scramble, stampede, stream, surge, swarm, tumble, urge, zip), ‏إندفاع (break, burst, dash, dive, drift, impulse, impulsion, impulsiveness, lunge, onrush, prod, raciness, rush, scramble, surge, tear), ‏رفس (kick). (various references)

Basque

jaurtiki (fling to, hurl to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

остра забележка (stinger), плисвам (dash, pour down, slop, throw), подхвърлям (abandon, expose, hint, insinuate, interject, interpose, leave, throw up, toss, toss about), присмех (derision, hoot, jeer, laugh, mockery, ridicule, rub, scoff, scorn, taunt), буйство, захвърлям (discard, forsake, hurl, plunk, relegate, shelve, throw down, throw off), захвърляне (dereliction, discard, relegation), изскачам (bounce, jump out, shoot out), мятане (cast, flounce, hurl, jactation, jactitation, projection, shy, throw, toss), събарям (bowl over, break down, bring down, demolish, dismantle, fell, fling down, grass, kick over, knock down, knock off, lay low, overthrow, prostrate, pull down, push down, push over, rase, raze, ride down, run down, subvert, tear down, throw down), внезапно движение (jerk), хвърлям (aim, broadcast, cast, cob, dart, dash, draw, fling down, flung, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pass, pitch, plunk, pounce, precipitate, project, send, shadow, shed, shoot, shoot out, sling, sock, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, toss about, whop), хвърляне (cast, casting, delivery, draught, heave, hurl, hurling, pitch, precipitation, projection, release, shy, sling, throw, throwing, toss), хуквам (bolt, dart, streak off), ритам (balk, boot, kick, lash, recoil, toe), спускам се (decline, drop, fall, flow, get down, haul down, lour, lower, pitch, shoot, shut down, shut in, sink, step down, swoop, take downhill), мятам (cast, drive, launch, pitch, put on, sell, send, shaft, shoot, sling, slip over, spoof, swing, throw, toss, tumble about). (various references)

Chinese 

甩 . (various references)

Czech

praštit (bash, belt, bust, catch, hit, hurl, knock, slosh, slug, strike, swipe), mrštit (chuck, dash, heave, hurl, hurtle, pitch, pop, sling, strike, throw, toss), mrštìní, hození (heave, toss, toss up, tossup), hodit (bung, cast, chuck, drop, heave, hurtle, pitch, spang, throw, tip, toss). (various references)

Danish

svinge (brandish, sway, swing, wave, wave about). (various references)

Dutch

zwaaien (brandish, sway, wave), swingen (brandish), slingeren (brandish, meander, oscillate, roll, sway). (various references)

Esperanto

svingi (brandish, swing, wave, wave about). (various references)

Faeroese

veittra (brandish, swing, wave, wave about), reiggja (brandish, rock, swing, wave, wave about). (various references)

Finnish

viskata (chuck, throw, toss), singota (hurl, hurtle), piikki (thorn, spike, spine), paiskata (hurl, send flying, throw, toss), lingota (hurl, sling, spin-dry), huitoa (fight with one's arms, lay about . . with a stick, wave), hipat (blast, celebration, party, spree), heitto (cast, throw, toss), heittää (throw), heitellä (throw, toss), heiluttaa (swing, wave). (various references)

French

brandir (flourish). (various references)

Frisian

ôfsmite (cast, cast off, fling off, get rid of, shed, throw off). (various references)

German

schleudern (catapult, catapults, hurl, skid, sling). (various references)

Greek 

ρίψιμο (shy, throw), σκώμμα (gibe, quip, scoff), βολή (cast, range, round, shot, shy, throw), πετώ κάτι με ορμή, πετώ (chuck, discard, fly, throw), εκσφενδονίζω (hurl), εκσφενδονίζομαι, εξακοντίζω (dart, shoot). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשמוט (drop, let fall, slip off), לזנק (dart, dash, gush out, leap, lunge, pounce, spring, spring forth, squirt, start, take off), להעיף (flip, fly, hurl), להטיל ארצה (floor), השלכה (cast, implication, import, projection, throw, throwing away), הטלה (casting, imposition, infliction, projection, sling, throwing), טלטול (carrying, rolling, shake, wandering, yank). (various references)

Hungarian

hajítás (projection, shy, throw), csípős megjegyzés (quip, stinger), csipkelődő megjegyzés, dobás (cast, pitch, pitching, put, shot, shy, sling, throw), gúnyolódó megjegyzés, gúnyos megjegyzés (taunt, sarcasm), csúfolódó megjegyzés, kötekedő megjegyzés (scoff, taunt), vetés (sowing), kiruccanás (jaunt, sally), kitombolás, lendítés (brandish, hurl, wave), lumpolás (batter, drinking-bout), mulatozás (gaieties, jollification, revel, revelry), próbálkozás (attempt, crack, endeavoring, go, pop, shot, trying), skót táncfajta, hirtelen heves mozdulat. (various references)

Indonesian

melemparkan (dart, dash away, hurl). (various references)

Italian

scaraventare (hurl), scagliare (dart, dash, hurl, hurl oneself, hurtle, launch, rush, sling, throw, throw oneself), sbattere (flap, slam), lanciare (cast, chuck, dash, drop, flip, float, hurl, launch, move out, pitch, promote, propose, put up, send, send up, set, shoot, sling, start, throw, utter), getto (cast, casting, jet, shoot), gettare (throw), divertimento (amusement, entertainment, fun), buttare (burgeon, cast, chuck, pour, redound, reject, throw, waste), avventura (adventure), avventarsi (hurl, pounce, swoop). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

脱ぎ捨てる (to fling, to kick off, to throw off), 肉弾戦 (warfare in which soldiers fling themselves at the enemy), 顔に泥を塗る (to bring disgraceon, to fling mud at), 投げ飛ばす (to fling, to hurl), 抛つ (to abandon, to fling away), 払い除ける (to brush away, to drive away, to fling off, to ward off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なげうつ (to abandon, to fling away), なげとばす (to fling, to hurl), ぬぎすてる (to fling, to kick off, to throw off), にくだんせん (warfare in which soldiers fling themselves at the enemy), かおにどろをぬる (to bring disgraceon, to fling mud at), はらいのける (to brush away, to drive away, to fling off, to ward off). (various references)

Korean 

던지십시요. (various references)

Manx

tilgey (abort, cast, cast off, casting, chuck, discharge, disgorge, ejection, hurl, launch; throwing, miscarriage, miscarry, misconception; found, moulting, pitch, plunge, pot, precipitate, precipitation, project, projection, shedding, shoot, sling, throw, toss, tossing, void, vomit, vomiting). (various references)

Norwegian

slenge, kast (haul), hive. (various references)

Occitan

tirar (hurl, throw). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingflay.(various references)

Portuguese

folia (merry-making, revelry, rollick, whoopee), folga (air-gap, backlash, easy, looseness, respite, room, time), exalar (breathe, die, exhale, expire, transpire), arremesse, arremesso (casting, flip, heave, pelt, pitch, projection, put, shy, throw), arruinar (spoil), ataque (attack), atirar (throw, shoot), aventurar-se (attempt, presume, stick one's neck out, venture), bater (strike, beat, bob, hit, knock), coice (kick, recoil), coicear (hoof), correr (accrue, bolt, career, course, fleet, flow, flux, gallop, go, hotfoot, hurry, lob, overrun, race, run, scoot, shoot, speed, travel, tumble), despedir (dismiss, sack), emitir (issue), agitar (stir, wave), espalhar (disseminate, spread), vontade (will), lançamento (launch), lançar (throw), mexer (move, stir), pontapé (kick), precipitar-se (flown, hail, huddle, lunge, plunge, whip), pulo (leap, jump), salto (jump, heel, leap), tentativa (attempt, try), vibrar (vibrate), escárnio (derision, fleer, flout, gibe, gird, jeer, jibe, mock, mockery, ridicule, scoff, sneer, taunt). (various references)

Romanian

mişcare bruscã (dart, dash, flirt, flounce, hitch), arunca (throw), aruncãturã (dash, throw, toss), azvârli (cast, catapult, chuck, discharge, drop, hurl, jet, kick, launch, precipitate, project, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, toss, tumble), azvârliturã (lunge, throw, toss), da buzna în (burst), deschide şi închide brusc, desface brusc braţele, izbucni (break forth, break out, burst, burst into, burst out, erupt, flare, gush, spurt), împrãştia (bestrew, break, diffuse, dispel, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, effuse, exude, propagate, scatter, shoot out, spill, split up, spread, sprinkle, straggle, strew, throw about, vanish), lepãda (cast, drop, hurl, reject, relinquish, renounce, shed, slink, slip, throw), vioiciune (alacrity, alertness, briskness, buoyancy, fizz, go, hoity toity, jazz, life, liveliness, perkiness, pertness, quickness, snap, sprightliness, vivacity), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), rãspândi (broadcast, carry, cast, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, Dot, emit, float, give forth, give out, intersperse, irradiate, outspread, promulgate, propagate, radiate, release, retail, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw), sarcasm (acridity, causticity, malice, mordacity, sarcasm, sneer), se mânia (chafe, fire up), se nãpusti (fall, rush, shoot, souse, stampede), se precipita (dash, precipitate, rush, whirl along), se repezi (burst into, dart, flounce, fly at, hurl oneself, make a dash at smth., make for, plough into, rush, start, swoop upon), trânti jos (carry smb. off his feet, floor, lay low), veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, festival, festivity, fiskiness, gaiety, gale, geniality, gladness, great spirits, high spirits, hilarity, jamboree, jauntiness, jocoseness, jocundity, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings), lansa (circulate, dash, deliver, deploy, discharge, drop, float, hurl, initiate, launch, plug, project, release, send, set off, shoot, start, throw). (various references)

Russian 

швырять (dash, slammed), кинуть (cast, throw), кидаться, кидать бросок, кидать (cast, throw), запустить (launch, throw), бросок (burst of energy, cast, dash, heave, jump, leap, pitch, shoot, shy, sling, throw), бросаться (dash, dashed, flounce, fly at, pelt, plunge, pop, tear along), бросать (throw), пляска (dancing). (various references)

Scottish

tilg (throw). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

terevenka (bender, binge, fuddle, revel, revelry), hitac (round, shot), baciti (bung, cast, chuck, dart, dash, heave, hurl, hurtle, peg, pitch, project, shoot, slap, sling, throw, throw out, toss), bacanje (cast, chuck, heave, hurl, pitch, pitching, put, roll, throw, throwing, toss, tossing). (various references)

Spanish

lanzar (throw), lanzamiento (launch, hurl, launching, throwing), aventura amorosa (amour), arrojar (hurl, result). (various references)

Swedish

slänga (chuck, dangle, dash, throw, toss), kasta (throw, cast, chuck, hurl, shy). (various references)

Thai

โถม, ขว้าง (cob, hurl, sling). (various references)

Turkish

fırlatmak (aim, blast off, bung, cast, cast away, catapult, chuck, chuck away, dart, eject, hurl, hurtle, launch, pelt, project, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, swing, throw, toss, whisk), fırlatma (cast, chuck, hurl, launching, pelt, projection, put, shy, throw, throwing, toss), fırlamak (bolt, boom, bounce, break, burst, dart, dash, dodge, flirt, fly off, fly out, goggle, high-tail, hurl oneself, hurtle, jump, leap up, make a dash, shoot, shoot ahead, shoot off, shoot out, shoot up, skyrocket, soar, spring, stand out, start, start up, steepen, tear, whip, whisk, zoom), doya doya eğlenme, atış (beat, burst, chuck, firing, gunshot, inning, innings, pistol shot, projection, put, shoot, shooting, shot, shy, throw), atılma (clutch, dash, entrance, plunge, pounce, rush, rush forward), atılmak (adventure, burst, dart, dash, embark, embark upon, fly, hurl oneself, launch out into, leap, make a dash, plunge, rip into, rush, shoot ahead, stand out, stand out against, start in, take a step, throw on, throw oneself into, throw upon, walk the plank), atma (banishment, bragging, cast, chuck, ejectment, elimination, heave, heaving, hurl, inset, ouster, pelt, postpone, projectile, shoot, shy, tell us another, throw, throwing, volley), atmak (throw), ani hareket etmek (fling out), deneme (assay, bash, crack, dissertation, effort, essay, experiment, experimentation, go, pilot, practice, probation, proof, proving, shakedown, shot, study, tentative, test, testing, touch, trial, try, try out, whack, workout), savurmak (blow about, brandish, bung, chuck, chuck away, dash, flap, hurl, hurtle, rip out, scatter, swing, throw out, thunder), girişmek (address oneself to, approach, attack, begin, buckle down to, buckle oneself to, embark, embark upon, enter into, enter on, enter upon, fall to, have a bash, interfere, jut into, kick off, knuckle down to, launch, launch out, pitch into, proceed, set about, set off, set one's hand to, set oneself to do smth., set out, set to, start in, start out, tackle, take a step, take the initiative, throw oneself into, undertake, venture on, venture upon, wade in, wade into), iskoç dansı (schottische), kurtlarını dökme, binicisini atma. (various references)

Turkmen 

pyzmak (hurl). (various references)

Ukrainian

кидок (cast, chuck, dart, lunge, pitch, push, shy, throw), кидатися (chop, dash, go at, rush, throw), кидати (abandon, aim, buzz, cast, chop, chuck, dart, dash, depart, desert, desolate, elance, fall away, pack in, pelt, pitch, plonk, project, sling, throw, throw down, throw up, toss), кидання (cast, casting, heaving, hurling, pelt, pitching, projection, put, throw, throwing, toss), відправити. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự vứt (flung, threw, throw, thrown), sự quăng (cast, flung, threw, throw, thrown), sự ném (flung, pitch, threw, throw, thrown), sự liệng (chuck, flung, pitch), sự lao (flung), sự gắng thử điệu múa sôi nổi (flung). (various references)

Welsh

ysgw+d (jerk, shove, toss), taflu (cast, hurl, throw), lluchio (drift, pelt, throw). (various references)

coniecturam, contorquere, effuderim, effuderint, effuderis, effuderit, effuderitis, effudero, effuderunt, effudi, effudisti, effudit, effundam, effundant, effundas, effundatis, effundatur, effunde, effundebantque, effundebatur, effundendum, effundens, effundensque, effundent, effundentem, effundentes, effundentium, effunderem, effunderent, effundes, effundet, effundetur, effundi, effundit, effundite, effunditur, effundo, effusa, effusi, effuso, effusorum, effusum, effusus, eice, eicere, eicerent, eiceret, eiciam, eiciant, eiciat, eiciebant, eiciebat, eiciens, eicient, eicientem, eicientes, eicientur, eiciet, eicio, eicis, eicit, eicite, eicitur, eiciunt, eieceram, eiecerat, eiecerint, eiecero, eiecerunt, eieci, eiecimus, eiecique, eiecissent, eiecisset, eiecisti, eiecistis, eiecit, eiecitque, eiecta, eiectam, eiecti, eiectis, eiecto, eiectos, eiectum, proicio, supereffundentia. (various references)

bregdan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fling": flinger, flingers, flinging, flings. (additional references)

Words ending with "fling": baffling, coffling, muffling, piffling, purfling, raffling, reshuffling, riffling, rifling, ruffling, scuffling, shuffling, skiffling, snaffling, sniffling, snuffling, stifling, trifling, unmuffling, upfling, waffling, whiffling. (additional references)

Words containing "fling": bafflingly, purflings, riflings, stiflingly, triflings, upflinging, upflings, wafflings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faling, felyng, filn, fing, f'ing, fingy, flang, fleeng, flig, fliing, flin, flinc, flind, fline, flinf, flingy, flinx, fliny, fluing, flyn, flynge, foing, Fring, fyling, gling, kling, tling. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ling.

-2 letters: fig, fil, fin, gin, lin, nil.

-3 letters: if, in, li.

+1 letter: filing, flings, flying, ingulf.

+2 letters: fabling, failing, falling, fatling, feeling, felling, felting, filings, filling, filming, finagle, flaking, flaming, flaring, flawing, flaying, fleeing, flexing, fleying, flinger, fliting, flowing, fluking, fluming, fluting, fluxing, flyings, flyting, foaling, foiling, folding, fooling, fouling, fowling, fueling, fugling, fulling, furling, gainful, golfing, gulfing, ingulfs, leafing, lifting, lignify, loafing, lofting, luffing, rifling, rolfing, selfing, upfling, wolfing.