different between underwing vs underking

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

under +? wing

Noun

underwing (plural underwings)

1. A hind wing on an insect.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 2

     The upper wings of the moth which Jacob held were undoubtedly marked with kidney-shaped spots of a fulvous hue. But there was no crescent upon the underwing.

2. A member of the genus Catocala, a nocturnal moth which usually has brightly coloured underwings.
3. (ornithology) The underside of a bird's wing.

English

Alternative forms

• under-king

Etymology

From Middle English underking, from Old English undercing, undercyning (“under-king, viceroy”), equivalent to under- +? king. Cognate with Dutch onderkoning (“viceroy”), German Unterkönig (“underking”), Danish onderkonge (“underking”), Swedish underkung (“underking”).

Noun

underking (plural underkings)

1. An inferior or subordinate king; a viceroy.
   • 1987, David P. Chandler, David Joel Steinberg, In Search of Southeast Asia:

     From the Johore capital on the island of Pulau Penyengat in the Riau Archipelago, where Parani's brother became "underking" to a puppet Malay sultan, the Bugis extended their control over the tin negeri of Kedah and Perak, [...]

   • 1995, N. J. Higham, An English Empire:

     Bede himself used it in this context, among others, referring for example to Peada, Penda's son and the underking of the Middle Saxons, as a princeps.

   • 2010, Mark Del Franco, Face Off:

     “I am an advisor in his role as an InterSec director, Lord Guardian, not his counselor as underKing to the Inverni.” Aran made a dismissive gesture with his hand. “A distinction without a difference. [...]”

Anagrams

• dunkering