a. north. dial. [f. BING v.2 + -Y.] Said of milk: In the incipient stage of sourness.
1857. Mrs. Gaskell, C. Brontë (1857), I. 70. The milk, too, was often ‘bingy,’ to use a country expression for a kind of taint which is far worse than sourness.
1884. Cheshire Gloss. (E. D. S.), Bingy, a peculiar clouty or frowsty taste in milk. The first stage of turning sour.
