bingy

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English

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Etymology

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Compare dialectal bing (of milk, etc: to curdle, to sour) and perhaps bing (noun), used of various vessels for grain, wine, milk, etc.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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bingy (comparative more bingy, superlative most bingy)

  1. (dialectal) Of milk or butter: ropy; having gone bad or soured.
    Coordinate term: sour
    • 2005, The Iowa Review, volume 35, page 147:
      By now the milk is bingy; I turn sulky with no butter for my bread.

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