winninger

English

Etymology

From winning + -er. Compare winningest.

Adjective

winninger

  1. comparative form of winning: more winning

winninger (not comparable)

  1. (US) More winning; more attractive or successful; (sports) having more wins.
    • 1895, John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer, The University magazine and free review:
      "Apparition is then of a monster-task in a policy carving new fashions, The winninger course than the rule of force, and the springs lured to run in a stream; [...]"
    • 1948, Matthew Phipps Shiel, The best short stories of M. P. Shiel:
      I ask it : for the question ariseth of itself to my mind because of the crass facts of my predicament; yet my heart knoweth it, Lord God, to be the grumble of an ingrate: for a hidden thing is, that is winninger than wife, or child, or the shining of any light, [...]
    • 2007, Jason Bane, 5280, The Denver Magazine:
      Denver Winninger Than Some, Losinger Than Most

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