zing
/zɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He listened to the zing and echo on the line, the chatter of distant operators, the patches of Morse from aircraft and ships at sea, quickly suppressed."
- "I heard a zing close to my head and looked up again. Five or six men were lined up on the deck above me with rifles shooting at the shark."
- "To accompany a meal, the fresh Italian lager Poretti is perfect; Erdinger Weisbier, a wheat beer from Germany, is full of zing;"
- "We are all a second or two older than an astronaut who has been zinging around the Earth at 18000 miles per hour, because of his or her greater speed and the lack of gravity."
- "When the caller identified herself as from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle my heart zinged. I heard the words we had yearned for since March: They had found a donor marrow, mismatched at one antigen, that might work for Jane."
- "Goomba: Ouch that was cold! Paragoomba: “What, you’re too good for us? Come off it, sister! Spike Goomba: “Nobody zings us like that! Nobody! Let’s get ’em!”"
Etymology
Of onomatopoeic origin.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /zɪŋ/
- British English: /zɪŋ/