blingy

English

Etymology

bling +‎ -y

Pronunciation

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Adjective

blingy (comparative blingier, superlative blingiest)

1. (slang) shiny, glittery
   • 2007, Bongani Madondo, Hot type: icons, artists, and god-figurines:

     Kanye, who had a blingy neck chain with Jesus icon - a Jesus Christ with aquatic blue, diamond eyes - tried, unsuccessfully, to get the jeweller to turn Christ's eyes darker and the whole icon a shade darker than it was.

   • 2009 May 31, Christine Muhlke, “Cookbooks”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Adam Perry Lang is at the opposite end of the grilling spectrum, a blingy S.U.V. to Mallmann’s muddy old Land Rover.