flying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English fleynge, fleeʒinge, flihinde, vlyinde, vleoinde, flyand,
ffleghand, flighand (also fleoninde, fleonninde, etc.), from Old English flēogende, from Proto-Germanic *fleugandz (“flying”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”), equivalent to fly + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fljoogend (“flying”), West Frisian fleanend (“flying”), Dutch vliegend (“flying”), German Low German flegend (“flying”), German fliegend (“flying”), Danish flyvende (“flying”), Swedish flygande (“flying”), Icelandic fljúgandi (“flying”).
Senses: examples: text: flying fox
text: a flying rumour
text: in a sudden hail of exploding flying glass
text: Matthew (26—6 to 13), Mark (14—3 to 9), and Luke (7—37 and 38) also heard of, and related, the circumstance of Mary, whom John says (11 — 2) was the sister of Lazarus, anointing the head of Jesus with ointment, yet they neither of them utter a syllable about his raising her brother from the dead. It is difficult to account for this fact, unless we suppose that John was actually dishonest, or that he took up, believed and recorded a flying story, which an occurrence of some kind had given rise to, but which was without any foundation in truth.
ref: 1836, Lysander Spooner, The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity, Boston, page 34:
antonyms: flightless
glosses: That flies or can fly.
examples: text: flying visit
glosses: Brief or hurried.
examples: text: flying column
glosses: Capable of moving rapidly; highly mobile.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Not secured by yards.
raw_tags: of a sail
examples: text: Flying ferries are the watercraft of the future!
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Capable of foiling.
raw_tags: of a vessel
examples: text: He brands his cow W (flying W) or — (two-bar).
ref: 1911, Boys' Life, volume 1, number 1, page 25:
text: […] some seventy-five cows belonging to William and Bernie with a Flying W […]
ref: 1972, Willie Newbury Lewis, Tapadero: The Making of a Cowboy, page 154:
text: Wyles cut the fence, keeping the Flying D cowboys occupied rounding up their cattle.
ref: 2013, Janette Kenny, One Real Cowboy:
coordinate_terms: lazy
glosses: Designating a cattle brand consisting of a letter extended on both sides with tilde-like curved lines.
Derived terms: actual flying time
elapsed flying time
flubber
flying arch
flying army
flying baker
Flying Banana
flying bishop
flying boat
flying bomb
flying brick
flying bridge
flying buttocks
flying buttress
flying camp
flying car
flying carp
flying carpet
flying cat
flying circus
flying coffin
flying colours
flying column
flying cone
flying cymbal
flying disc
flying disc golf
flying disk
flying doctor
Flying Dutchman
flying fig
flying fish
Flying Fortress
flying fox
flying freehold
flying frog
flying fuck
flying ginny
flying gurnard
flying hatchetfish
flying jenny
flying jib
flying jib boom
flying junction
flying kiss
flying knee
flying lap
flying lemur
flying lizard
flyingly
flying mare
flying meet
flying monkeys
flying mouse
flying officer
flying ointment
flying party
flying phalanger
flying picket
flying purple people eater
flying rat
flying rib
flying rod
flying rowan
flying saucer
flying shit
flying shot
Flying Spaghetti Monster
flying spaghetti monster
flying squad
flying squid
flying squirrel
flying start
flying stationer
flying toilet
flying visit
flying voter
flying wedge
flying wing
free-flying
give a flying shit
high-flying
instrument flying
nonflying
non-flying
southern flying squirrel
take a flying fuck
unflying
what the flying fuck