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Webster 1828 Edition

Flinging

FLING'ING

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ppr.

Throwing; casting; jeering.

Definition 2024

flinging

flinging

English

Verb

flinging

present participle of fling

Noun

flinging ‎(plural flingings)

The act by which something is flung.
- Thomas Hardy, A Laodicean
  […] as Somerset had understood the play, there could occur no flingings of her person upon her lover's neck, or agonized downfalls upon the stage, in her whole performance […]