swinge
1 Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- swinger noun
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
Example Sentences
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Ye dry bisket rogue, I will so swinge you for this blasphemie— Have I found you out?
From The Little French Lawyer A Comedy by Beaumont, Francis
The young dogs, swinge them to the labour; Let wark an' hunger mak them sober!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
But Starr’s or Ignoramus’s may not give Those Swearers longer swinge by Oaths to live.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore
He must swinge them, like it or not!
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
That is the neetive misure of the Oirish bards, an' is iminiutly adapted to rendher the Homeric swinge.
From The Lady of the Ice A Novel by De Mille, James
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