stinging
nounEtymology From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
1
The act by which someone receives a sting.
- the stingings of scorpions
- stingings of remorse
stinging
adj/ˈstɪŋɪŋ/
Etymology From Middle English styngyng; equivalent to sting + -ing.
1
Having the capacity to sting.
- stinging nettles
2
Figuratively Precise and hurtful.
- a stinging indictment of the American prison system
- That same year, a young Gloria Steinem went undercover as a Playboy Bunny at one of his Playboy Clubs and wrote a stinging inside critique of the magazine's ethos and chauvinism in an article, titled "A Bunny's Tale," which was published in Show magazine.2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone:
- Derived terms
- stinging catfish, stingingly, stingingness