flaming

See also:Flaming

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfleɪmɪŋ/

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-eɪmɪŋ

Adjective

flaming(comparativemoreflaming,superlativemostflaming)

1. On fire with visibleflames.

   Theflamingdebris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.

   • 2011,Stephanie Owen Reeder,Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea,page76:

     On Christmas Day, the pudding was served piping hot, withflamingbrandy on top.

2. Verybrightand thecolorofflame.
   • 1994,J.A. Jance,Death of a Snowbird:

     In the evening she reveled in theflamingsunsets, with their spectacular orange glows that seemed to set the whole world on fire.

   • 2014,M. A. Meadowcroft -,The Windsurf Girl: A story of intrigue, avarice and romance,→ISBN,page135:

     Edward was twelve when he had seen his first painting by Titian of a woman with flowing red locks. Since that day, he had always wanted to find a model he could paint who possessed theflaminghair that was Titian's trademark.

   • 2014,Robert Barr,The Strong Arm: And Other Stories,→ISBN,page323:

     The sun had not yet risen, but the splendour in the East, lighting the sky with wondrous colourings of gold and crimson and green, announced the speedy coming of that god which many of the inhabitants of Baalbek still worshipped. The temples and palaces of the city took their tints from theflamingsky, and Haziddin, the ambassador, thought he had never seen anything so beautiful, notwithstanding the eulogy Mahomet himself had pronounced upon his own metropolis of Damascus.

3. (colloquial)Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of ahomosexualmale.

   To call him aflaminghomosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.

4. (British,colloquial)Damned,bloody.

   I wasted three hours in thatflamingtraffic jam!

5. Veryenthusiasticorpassionate.
   • 1847January –1848July, William Makepeace Thackeray,Vanity Fair[…],London:Bradbury and Evans[…],published1848,→OCLC:

     Before he had brought it into the study that morning, he had read in the journal aflamingaccount of "Festivities at Gaunt House," with the names of all the distinguished personages invited by the Marquis of Steyne to meet his Royal Highness.

Derived terms

• flaming Katy
• flaming Lamborghini
• flaming mad
• flaming Nora
• flaming onion
• flaming queen
• flaming sword
• flaming volcano
• Newton's flaming laser sword

Translations

On fire with visible flames

• Bulgarian:пламтящ(bg)(plamtjašt)
• Czech:planoucí(cs),hořící(cs),plápolající
• French:enflammé(fr),flambant(fr)
• Gothic:𐍆𐌿𐌽𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃(funisks)
• Greek:

  Ancient:φλόγινος(phlóginos)

• Italian:infiammato(it)
• Latin:flagrans
• Plautdietsch:flaument
• Portuguese:flamejante
• Scottish Gaelic:lasrach
• Spanish:llameante(es)
• Swedish:flammande(sv)

Bright-colored

• Czech:ohnivý(cs)

Extremely visible

• Bulgarian:ярък(bg)(jarǎk)

Damned, bloody

• Czech:zatracený(cs),proklatý,zpropadený
• Finnish:saamarin,helkkarin,samperin
• Swedish:jäkla(sv),jädra(sv),sabla(sv),förbannad(sv)

Passionate

• Bulgarian:пламенен(bg)(plamenen)
• Czech:vášnivý(cs),prudký(cs),divoký(cs)

Verb

flaming

1. presentparticipleandgerundofflame

Noun

flaming(pluralflamings)

1. An emission or application of fire; act of burning with flames.
   • 1950,Market Growers Journal,volume79,page12:

     The burning is done before the crop has come up, and usually twoflamingsare necessary to kill all weeds[…]

2. Sterilizationby holding an object in a hotflame.
3. (Internetslang)Vitrioliccriticism.

   You can expect aflamingif you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.

See also

• flame war
• flame bait

Polish

flamingi

Etymology

Internationalism;compareEnglishflamingo,GermanFlamingo,Russianфлами́нго(flamíngo),ultimately fromPortugueseflamingo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfla.miŋk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-amiŋk
• Syllabification:fla‧ming

Noun

flamingmanimal

1. flamingo(any wading bird of the familyPhoenicopteridae)

   Synonym:czerwonak

Declension

Declension offlaming

	singular	plural
nominative	flaming	flamingi
genitive	flaminga	flamingów
dative	flamingowi	flamingom
accusative	flaminga	flamingi
instrumental	flamingiem	flamingami
locative	flamingu	flamingach
vocative	flamingu	flamingi

Further reading

• flaminginWielki słownik języka polskiego,Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• flamingin Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Noun

flamingm(pluralflamingi)

1. Obsoleteform offlamingo.

Declension

Declension offlaming

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un)flaming	flamingul	(niște)flamingi	flamingii
genitive/dative	(unui)flaming	flamingului	(unor)flamingi	flamingilor
vocative	flamingule		flamingilor

References

• flamingin Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a,Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN