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Wingdings

Wingdings

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A font made of symbols and small pictures instead of letters or numbers
  • proper noun
: Wingdings
  • So question Is Guy Fieri speaking in only Wingdings worse than Guy Fieri speaking how he normally speaks?

Examples

  • Many people find it difficult to read text that has been turned into Wingdings instead of regular letters.

  • They're looking at the emails that are still going round that that have AJ in them for no good reason because Wingdings mapped :) to J.

  • She designed a presentation using the Wingdings font to include fun symbols and pictograms.

  • When I received the email, the message was completely illegible because it was written in Wingdings.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Wingdings is a made-up name that joins wing and ding from dingbat, a word for a small printed ornament or symbol. A helpful image is 'little wings of symbols' flying across the page, which explains why Wingdings is a font of icons and pictures instead of normal letters.