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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : zing |
| Phonetic Transcription : zɪŋ |
Definition of zing
Origin :- 1911, "high pitched sound," 1918, of echoic origin. Slang meaning "energy, zest" is attested from 1918.
- noun liveliness
- I saw the small stab of flame, heard the zing of the bullet.
- Extract from : « Beyond the Vanishing Point » by Raymond King Cummings
- "Zing, Jasper," cried Cap'n Jack, when one verse was completed.
- Extract from : « The Birthright » by Joseph Hocking
- Any koot zinger can zing a peautiful zong and kif bleasure, I zubboce!
- Extract from : « Trilby » by George Du Maurier
- It looked as if we were going to win the game, and then zing!
- Extract from : « Pitching in a Pinch » by Christy Mathewson
- Zing, zing, zing—I hate your old heat a-singin' in my ears all the gosh-blamed time!
- Extract from : « McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 » by Various
- The bullet chipped a piece out of the main boom and went, zing, across the river.
- Extract from : « Jack Harvey's Adventures » by Ruel Perley Smith
- When you hear the zing of a spent bullet or the sharp crack of an explosive, you know it has passed you.
- Extract from : « Trenching at Gallipoli » by John Gallishaw
- But I voot zooner hear la Sfencali zing a scale zan anypotty else zing ze most peautiful zong in ze vorldt—efen vun of my own!
- Extract from : « Trilby » by George Du Maurier
- You vill hear her zum tay yourzellof, and you vill acree viz me zat zere are two classes of beoble who zing.
- Extract from : « Trilby » by George Du Maurier
- Quiz′ziness, oddness; Quiz′zing, raillery; Quiz′zing-glass, a single eye-glass.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) » by Various
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