swinge
1 Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of swinge1
1250–1300; Middle English swengen to shake, smite, Old English swengan, causative of swingan to swing, or denominative derivative of Old English sweng a blow
Origin of swinge2
First recorded in 1580–90; obscurely akin to singe
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Examples are: the double negative with ne; eyen, lenger, doen, ycladd, harrowd, purchas, raught, seely, stowre, swinge, owch, and withouten.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
The young dogs, swinge them to the labour; Let wark an' hunger mak them sober!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
The young dogs, swinge them to the labour; Let wark an’ hunger mak’ them sober!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
I never heard of but one that did, and he was a little swinge cat.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
For the sake of your beaux yeux he will have to swinge them, and lustily.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
Fafà Picault swinged in a cross from wide left, Whitecaps goalkeeper Maxime Crépeau was unable to corral it after a deflection off defender Bruno Gaspar and Rodríguez smashed home the putback.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2021
I thank you, you swinged me for my love, which makes me the bolder to chide you for yours.
From Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
As the swinged person approaches the swinger, he exclaims, Ei mi tu chal, 'I'll eat your kail.'
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson
Now will he be swinged for reading my letter,—an unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself into secrets!
From Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William George Clark
And they it was who caught the great Devil of Dax and tied him up and swinged him with an ash-plant till he swore that he would haunt the woods no more.
From Hills and the Sea by Hilaire Belloc
At the same time, he has been criticised for swingeing job cuts as he tries to restore order to the club's finances.
From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026
The budget cap was introduced as part of a swingeing set of regulation changes aimed at closing up the field and making the racing in F1 more competitive.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2022
In the event, Heath announced swingeing cuts to public sector investment, but his government did not last long enough to see through its plans.
From Reuters ● Aug. 17, 2022
The public market imposes a fairly swingeing discount on inorganic growth.
From The Verge ● Mar. 8, 2022
At every stride I gained upon the giraffes, and, after a short burst at a swingeing gallop, I was in the middle of them, and turned the finest cow out of the herd.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various
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