blingy

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English

Etymology

From bling +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

Adjective

blingy (comparative blingier, superlative blingiest)

  1. (informal) Extravagantly showy; shiny, glittery.
    • 2007, Bongani Madondo, Hot type: icons, artists, and god-figurines:
      Kanye, who had a blingy neck chain with Jesus icon - a Jesus Christ with aquatic blue, diamond eyes - tried, unsuccessfully, to get the jeweller to turn Christ's eyes darker and the whole icon a shade darker than it was.
    • 2009 May 31, Christine Muhlke, “Cookbooks”, in New York Times:
      Adam Perry Lang is at the opposite end of the grilling spectrum, a blingy S.U.V. to Mallmann’s muddy old Land Rover.
    • 2023 June 2, Jon Pareles, Giovanni Russonello, Lindsay Zoladz, “A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs”, in The New York Times:
      He sings about being spurned, drunk, rebounding and flaunting his blingy Patek Phillipe watch as Bizarrap quantizes regional Mexican acoustic sounds — the syncopated chords and trombone of a brass band, the slapping bass lines of a bajo sexto, solos on high-strung Mexican guitars — into a computerized track.

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