flinging

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflɪŋɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ

Verb

flinging

1. present participle and gerund of fling

Noun

flinging (plural flingings)

1. The act by which something is flung.
   • 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter VII, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the third (De Stancy), page 147:

     [T]he prominent character of leading young lady or heroine, which Paula was to personate, was really the most satisfactory in the whole list for her. For although she was to be wooed hard, there was just as much love-making among the remaining personages; while, 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, [...]