bingy

English

Etymology

Compare dialectal bing (“of milk, etc: to curdle, to sour”) and perhaps bing (noun), used of various vessels for grain, wine, milk, etc.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɪŋ.i/

Adjective

bingy (comparative more bingy, superlative most bingy)

(dialectal) Of milk or butter: ropy; having gone bad or soured.
Coordinate term: sour
- 2005, The Iowa Review, volume 35, page 147:
  By now the milk is bingy; I turn sulky with no butter for my bread.

References

John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Joseph Wright, editor (1898), “BINGY”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC.

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