wing
verb/wɪŋ/
/wɪŋ/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they wing | /wɪŋ/ /wɪŋ/ |
| he / she / it wings | /wɪŋz/ /wɪŋz/ |
| past simple winged | /wɪŋd/ /wɪŋd/ |
| past participle winged | /wɪŋd/ /wɪŋd/ |
| -ing form winging | /ˈwɪŋɪŋ/ /ˈwɪŋɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] wing (its way) + adv./prep. (literary) to fly somewhere
- A solitary seagull winged its way across the bay.
- He spotted the occasional pheasant winging rapidly away as he approached.
- [transitive] wing its way + adv./prep. to be sent somewhere very quickly
- An application form will be winging its way to you soon.
fly
go quickly
Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the plural): from Old Norse vængir, plural of vængr.
Idioms
See wing in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywing it
- (informal) to do something without planning or preparing it first synonym improvise
- I didn't know I'd have to make a speech—I just had to wing it.
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