wingding

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Reduplication of wing (“arm”).

• whingding, whing ding, wing ding, wing-ding

wingding (plural wingdings)

1. (slang) A fit or spasm.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 243:

     ‘She threw a wingding. Looked like a mild epileptic fit to me.’

2. (slang) A party.
   • 1982, Donald Fagen (lyrics and music), “New Frontier”, in The Nightfly:

     Yes we're gonna have a wingding / A summer smoker underground

• Jonathon Green (2024) “wing-ding n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

After the Wingdings font developed by Microsoft in 1990. Its name was presumably derived from dingbat and earlier senses of wingding.

wingding (plural wingdings)

1. (computing, typography) A dingbat (ornamental typographical symbol), especially one from the Wingdings font.
   • 2004, Mary Millhollon, Katherine Murray, Microsoft Office Word 2003 Inside Out, page 202:

     Instead of going through the menu selections needed to insert a special symbol like a Wingding, you can rely on AutoCorrect to substitute the symbol for the text you type […]

   • 2011, Suzanne Gilad, Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies, page 179:

     Don't know a wingding from a ring-a-ding-ding? Check out one of the For Dummies books on Microsoft Office.