wingding
wingding Lexical Profile
wingding Game Scores & Validity
• noun
North American A lively, noisy, or lavish party or celebration.
"The company threw a huge wingding at a downtown hotel to celebrate the successful product launch."
A typographic dingbat or ornamental symbol belonging to a digital font family of pictograms and icons.
"When the document encoding failed, the entire paragraph of text was displayed as unreadable wingdings."
North American A fit of anger, agitation, or erratic behavior; a tantrum or convulsion.
"The director threw a complete wingding when he discovered that the stage props had not arrived on time."
Word Origin & Etymology
Originating in early 20th-century American slang, the word is likely a rhyming reduplication combining 'wing' (in the sense of fluttering or erratic motion) and 'ding' (suggesting a sharp blow or ringing noise).