▪ I. bingy, a. north. dial.
(ˈbɪŋɪ)
[f. bing v.2 + -y.]
Said of milk: In the incipient stage of sourness.
| 1857 Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë (1857) I. 70 The milk, too, was often ‘bingy,’ to use a country expression for a kind of taint which is far worse than sourness. 1884 Cheshire Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bingy, a peculiar clouty or frowsty taste in milk. The first stage of turning sour. |
▪ II. bingy, n. Austral. slang.
(ˈbɪndʒɪ)
Also bingee, bingie, bingey, binjy.
[Aboriginal.]
The stomach, belly. Also attrib.
| [1851 Rev. D. Mackenzie Ten Years in Australia xiv. 140 They lay rolling themselves on the ground, heavily groaning in pain,..exclaiming, ‘Cabonn buggel along bingee’ (that is, I am very sick in the stomach).] 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn II. vi. 94 Don't you fret your bingy, boss; he'll be as good a man as his father yet. 1908 E. J. Banfield Confessions of Beachcomber i. iv. 143 Bingie (belly) belonga you, sore fella. Ibid. ii. ii. 301 His ‘debil-debil all the same like dead man’, had ‘sat down’ in ‘Little Jinny's bingey’. 1924 D. H. Lawrence & Skinner Boy in Bush 85 Success is t'grow a big bingy like a bloke from town. 1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo xv. 150 Give them a bit of pain killer or a dose of castor oil when they've got a bingee ache. 1931 I. L. Idriess Lasseter's Last Ride ii. 18 Micky landed, whoof! on his bingy. 1963 Australasian Post 20 June 44 Plenty tucker here. Just look at those binjies! |