wingy
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Is wingy a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Winged, or as if winged; inclined to fly.Examples: "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."; "—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."; "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."archaic
noun (English)
1. (slang) One who has an amputated arm or arms.Examples: "He was crippled in one leg, which fact accounted for his moniker, for on the Road a lame man is a gimpy; even as a one-armed man is a wingy."; "All the golfers shown played in the N.Z. Annual "wingies" and "limbies" tournament, total number of competitors, 40."; "Many of the cricketers were amputees, yet they were not without resources. The "wingies" did the running for the "stumpies," and the "stumpies" did the batting for the "wingies.""slang
2. (slang) One who has a wing position.Examples: "Wingies, don't you love the lead who immediately rudders you out to route at 500 feet and then turns into you while giving a channel change."; "Damn it all, I know you're right, Dar, but I've never lost a wingy before."; "My wingies tried to pep-talk me into believing that I could do better in the next test."slang
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