bingy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare dialectal bing (“of milk, etc: to curdle, to sour”) and perhaps bing (noun), used of various vessels for grain, wine, milk, etc.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bingy (comparative more bingy, superlative most bingy)
- (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.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
- Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “BINGY”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.