wingdings
wingdings Lexical Profile
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• noun
A series of digital dingbat fonts that render letters and characters as a variety of ornamental symbols, icons, and pictograms; (in plural) such typographical symbols collectively.
"When the document font was accidentally changed to Wingdings, the entire paragraph turned into an unreadable row of arrows, stars, and zodiac icons."
North American Plural form of wingding: lively, extravagant, or noisy parties, celebrations, or social gatherings.
"The neighborhood was famous for hosting boisterous summer wingdings that lasted well past midnight."
Word Origin & Etymology
The typographic sense was coined by Microsoft in 1990 as a portmanteau of 'Windows' and 'dingbats', whereas the informal sense of a lively party is mid-20th-century American slang of uncertain origin.