Lexicographical Neighbors of Bingy
Literary usage of Bingy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"BING, 11. to begin to turn sour. Said of milk. bingy, adj. a peculiar ... To keep
milk in tin vessels tends to give it a bingy taste. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1864)
"“If you do,” said Pistol, “I'll have your bingy; strike me as blind as a morepork
ij' I don't have your bingy!” (by which speech I know, ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire by Egerton Leigh (1877)
""It will be a bad chuni to-day, the cream smells quite bingy." L. BIRR, BIRRE,
BEER, BER, BURRE, v.—Impetus. To " take birr " is to run with violence, ..."
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