fling
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English fling, from the verb (see below). Compare Icelandic flengur (“a fast sprint”).
Inflected forms:
form: flings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flung
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flung
pos: verb
tags: past
form: flang
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
dialectal
participle
past
form: flang
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
dialectal
past
form: flinged
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: flinged
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
Senses:
gloss: An act of throwing, often violently.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance.
pos: noun
examples: the fling of a horse
gloss: An act or period of unrestrained indulgence, enthusiasm, or both.
pos: noun
examples: When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure.
"I am inclined to go and have a fling with them. Why not all of us — just for a minute or two — it will not detain us long?"
Here again steam is having its last fling, and the "dual link" drivers at Brunswick shed, Liverpool, already are alternating steam and diesel duties.
gloss: A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
pos: noun
examples: a summer fling
I had a fling with a girl I met on holiday.
Because I've noticed one thing / This ain't no summer fling
gloss: An attempt, a try.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: give it a fling
gloss: A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe or taunt.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: I, who love to have a fling, / Both at senate house and king.
I can just make out clearly that he is having a good fling at the Pope. The congregation, numbering about two hundred, are evidently very much pleased with the clergyman's endeavour.
gloss: A lively Scottish country dance.
pos: noun
examples: the Highland fling
gloss: A party, especially a dance party.
pos: noun
examples: a spring fling
gloss: A trifling matter; an object of contempt.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: ante 1800, old proverb
England were but a fling / Save for the crooked stick and the grey goose wing.
gloss: To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 'Tis Fate that casts the Dice, and as she flings,
Of Kings makes Pedants, and of Pedants Kings.
I know thy generous temper well. / ' but the appearance of dishonour on it, / It straight takes fire.
Wilkinson was struggling, sending the re-start straight into touch and flinging a pass the same way, and France then went close to the first try of the contest as Clerc took a long pass out on the left and was just bundled into touch by the corner flag.
Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.
gloss: To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
literary
examples: And crop-full, out of doors he flings.
I see, sir, said I, I see what a man I am with. […] And away I flung, leaving him seemingly vexed, and in confusion.
I flung closer to his breast, / As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath.
"We beseech your Majesty—" said Glozelle, but Miraz had flung out of the tent and they could hear him bawling out his acceptance to Edmund.
gloss: To throw; to wince; to flounce.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: The horse flung most potently, making his heels fly aloft in the air.
gloss: To utter abusive language; to sneer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
literary
examples: The scold began to flout and fling.
Derived words: Highland fling
flingee
flinger
fling out
flingy
full fling
outfling
trust someone as far as one could fling a bull by the tail
upfling
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: hodit sebou
lang: Czech
word: vrhnout se
lang: Czech
word: skočit
lang: Danish
word: styrte
lang: Danish
word: fare
lang: German
word: sich werfen
lang: German
word: sich hinwerfen
lang: German
word: sich hinschleudern
lang: German
word: sich in etwas stürzen
lang: German
word: sich hinunterwerfen
lang: German
word: sich hinunterstürzen
lang: German
word: sich heranwerfen (an jemanden)
lang: German
word: sich an jemanden ranwerfen
lang: German
word: sich herumwerfen
lang: German
word: sich fallen lassen
lang: Middle English
word: flyngen
lang: Russian
word: бро́ситься
roman: brósitʹsja
lang: Russian
word: броса́ться
roman: brosátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: ки́нуться
roman: kínutʹsja
lang: Russian
word: кида́ться
roman: kidátʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: tirarse
lang: Spanish
word: lanzarse
lang: Spanish
word: echarse
lang: Spanish
word: arrojarse