[f. FLING v. + -ING2.] That flings: a. Of a horse: That kicks, unruly. † b. Of the Fiend: Raging, rampant, turbulent (cf. quot. c. 1435 in FLING v. 1). † c. fig. Of a fault: Fatal, damning.
a. a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546), F viij. A lusty horse fyerse and flingyng.
1585. Higgins, trans. Junius’ Nomenclator, 47/2. Equus calcitro.… A flinging or kicking horse.
b. a. 1529. Skelton, Howe the douty Duke of Albany, Poems, II. 317.
| I render the, fals rebelle, | |
| To the flingande fende of helle. |
1560. Ingelend, Disob. Child, F ij b.
| H. The flyinge and [? = flingand] fiende go with my wyfe, | |
| And in her journey ill maye she speede! |
c. a. 1577. Gascoigne, Dan Barth., x. Wks. (1587), 67.
| But that at last (alas) she was vntrue, | |
| Whych flinging fault, because it is not new … | |
| I maruell not. |
