wyngz

English

Etymology

Respelling of wings. Compare cheeze (“vegan cheese”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

wyngz pl (plural only)

1. (US) A chicken food product resembling chicken wings.
   • 2012, Andrew F. Smith, Fast Food and Junk Food: An Encyclopedia of What We Love to Eat:

     Perhaps the most unusual “chicken wings” are offered with DiGiorno's frozen three-meat pizza. They are honey-glazed, buffalo-style “Boneless Wyngz,” which contain no bones and no wing meat, either.

   • 2015, Liz Vaccariello, Stop & Drop Diet: Lose Up to 5 Lbs in 5 Days, page 98:

     3 pieces Tyson Buffalo Style Boneless Chicken Wyngz

   • 2017, FSIS Compliance Guidance for Label Approval - August 2017:

     Products without standard of identity (e.g. Wyngz- white chicken fritters)

Usage notes

• The US Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service permits the use of wyngz (but no other misspellings) on food packaging under certain conditions, one of which is that the product must contain chicken.