Meaning

noun a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung

noun a mental pain or distress

noun a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

originFrom Middle English styng, sting, stynge, stenge, from Old English sting, stincg (“a sting, stab, thrust made with a pointed instrument; the wound made by a stab or sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stingaz; possibly also from Old English stynġ, from Proto-Germanic *stungiz.

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