winged

From Middle English winged, wenged (“having wings”), past participle of wingen, from the noun winge, wenge.[1]

• wingèd (chiefly poetry)

• enPR: wĭng(ĭ)d
• IPA^(key): /wɪŋ(ɪ)d/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋd, -ɪŋɪd

winged (not comparable)

1. Having wings.

   Antonyms: apterous, unwinged, wingless

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters … But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.

   1. (in combination) Having wings of a specified kind.

      weak-winged

   2. (in combination) Having the specified number of wings.

      The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.

2. Flying or soaring as if on wings.
3. Swift.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:

     Come Tamburlain, now whet thy winged ſword
     And lift thy loftie arme into the cloudes,
     That it may reach the King of Perſeas crowne,
     And ſet it ſafe on my victorious head.

• light-winged (adjective)
• unwinged
• winged word

See wing (verb).

• IPA^(key): /wɪŋd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋd

winged

1. simple past and past participle of wing

See winge (verb).

• IPA^(key): /wɪnd͡ʒd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪndʒd
• Homophone: whinged

winged

1. simple past and past participle of winge

• Dewing, Gwendi, dewing