swinge
1 Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used with object)
verb
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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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Uncle Archy, this is Lyman Hall; and for all you see him in these fine clothes, he's a swinge cat; a darn sight cleverer fellow than he looks to be.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
For the sake of your beaux yeux he will have to swinge them, and lustily.
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
Sw imply a silent agitation, or a softer kind of lateral motion; as sway, swag, to sway, swagger, swerve, sweat, sweep, swill, swim, swing, swift, sweet, switch, swinge.
From A Grammar of the English Tongue by Johnson, Samuel
Sirrah, knave, I have a mind to swinge you!
From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Moses, Montrose Jonas
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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