bing

Meanings

Noun

• Solitary confinement
• 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
• The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound
• A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore
• The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia
• A sound made by a bounce
• A bounce

Verb

• To go; walk; come; run
• Making the sound of a bounce
• To bounce

Origin

• From Middle English bing, binge, benge, 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").
• Onomatopoeia of a bouncing sound.