What does "bingy" mean?

Of milk or butter: ropy; having gone bad or soured.

Bingy

//ˈbɪŋ.i// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Adjective

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Of milk or butter: ropy; having gone bad or soured. dialectal
"By now the milk is bingy; I turn sulky with no butter for my bread."

"By now the milk is bingy; I turn sulky with no butter for my bread."

Compare dialectal bing (“of milk, etc: to curdle, to sour”) and perhaps bing (noun), used of various vessels for grain, wine, milk, etc.

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