Bing
early 16th century: from Old Norse bingr ‘heap’.
wiktionary
From Middle English bing, binge, benge, from Old Norse bingr(“heap of corn; bed; bolster”), cognate with Scots bing, Swedish binge(“heap”), Danish bing(“bin; box; compartment”).
Compare also Scottish Gaelic binnean meaning a small hill or slag heap.
Origin obscure. Compare Scots bin(“to move speedily with noise”).
Onomatopoeia of a bouncing sound.
bing
etymonline
bing (n.)
"heap or pile," 1510s, from Old Norse bingr "heap." Also used from early 14c. as a word for bin, perhaps from notion of "place where things are piled."
Bing (adj.)
in reference to a a dark red type of cherry widely grown in the U.S., 1889, said to have been developed 1870s and named for Ah Bing, Chinese orchard foreman for Oregon fruit-grower Seth Lewelling.
