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intj
The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: onomatopoeic
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intj
The high-pitched sound made by a bell being struck.
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Usage: onomatopoeic
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name
A surname from Old English of Old English origin and unknown meaning.
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name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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name
A diminutive of the male given names Bingley or Bingham (see also Bing Crosby).
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name
A search engine introduced by Microsoft in 2009.
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Usage: Internet
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noun
Solitary confinement.
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Usage: countable, slang, uncountable, with-definite-article
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noun
A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable, uncountable
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noun
The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
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Usage: Scotland, countable, uncountable
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noun
A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, countable, uncountable
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noun
The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
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noun
The sound made by a bounce.
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noun
A bounce.
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verb
To go; walk; come; run.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, dialectal, slang
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verb
To bounce.
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verb
To search for (something) on the Internet using the Bing search engine.
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History
Onomatopoeia, variously of a bouncing sound or a bell.
Brand name.
From Middle English bing, binge, benge (also as Middle English byngger, bengere (“grain bin, hopper”)), from Old Norse bingr (“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge (“heap”), Danish bing (“bin; box; compartment”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.
Origin obscure. Compare Scots bin (“to move speedily with noise”).
