English

Adjective

wingy ‎(comparative more wingy, superlative most wingy)

1. (archaic) Winged, or as if winged; inclined to fly.
   • 1805, James Beattie, The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius:

     The path that leads, where, hung sublime, And seen afar, youth's gallant trophies, bright In Fancy's rainbow ray, invite His wingy nerves to climb.

   • 1880, William Rounseville Alger, The Destiny of the Soul:

     The later Pythagoreans and Platonists seem to have believed that the same numerical ethereal body with which the soul was at first created adhered to it inseparably during all its descents into grosser bodies, a lucid and wingy vehicle, which, purged by diet and catharms, ascends again, bearing the soul to its native seat.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862:

     --and I ran up and down in the scale of semibreves and minims that I had heard, with the one long, sweet trill transfusing life on earth into heavenly existence, and I felt very wingy, very much as if I could take up the tower, standing high and square out there, and carry it, "like Loretto's chapel, through the air to the green land," where my spirit would go singing evermore.