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Webster 1828 Edition


Flinging

FLING'ING

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ppr.
Throwing; casting; jeering.

Definition 2024


flinging

flinging

English

Verb

flinging

  1. present participle of fling

Noun

flinging (plural flingings)

  1. The act by which something is flung.
    • Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean
      [] as Somerset had understood the play, there could occur no flingings of her person upon her lover's neck, or agonized downfalls upon the stage, in her whole performance []