Green’s Dictionary of Slang

winging adj.

1. (US drugs) suffering from withdrawal of a narcotic drug.

[US]H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 271: They got me wingin’. I ain’t had none of the old white stuff for two days.

2. anxious.

[US]H. Green Maison De Shine 2: I wonder how this Chris’mus celebration kin be brung off? It’s suttenly got me wingin’.