flying

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Able to fly or moving through the air.

   A flying insect buzzed around the room.

2. 2
   noun

   The activity of travelling by plane.

   Flying was still an exciting adventure for him.

3. 3
   adj

   Very short and hurried.

   She paid a flying visit to her parents on her way home.

From Middle English fleynge, fleeʒinge, flihinde, vlyinde, vleoinde, flyand, ffleghand, flighand (also fleoninde, fleonninde, etc.), from Old English flēogende, from Proto-Germanic *fleugandz (“flying”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”), equivalent to fly + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fljoogend (“flying”), West Frisian fleanend (“flying”), Dutch vliegend (“flying”), German Low German flegend (“flying”), German fliegend (“flying”), Danish flyvende (“flying”), Swedish flygande (“flying”), Icelandic fljúgandi (“flying”).

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