swinger
[swing-er]
noun
a person or thing that swings.
Slang. a lively, active, and modern person whose activities are fashionable or trendy.
Slang.
- a person who indulges in promiscuous sex.
- a person who engages in the exchanging of spouses for sexual activities.
Origin of swinger
swinge
1[swinj]
verb (used with object), swinged, swinge·ing. British Dialect.
Origin of swinge
11250–1300; Middle English swengen to shake, smite, Old English swengan, causative of swingan to swing, or denominative derivative of Old English sweng a blow
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Related Words for swingers
oddball, liberal, radical, dissident, separatist, sectary, iconoclast, demonstrator, freak, protester, beatnik, malcontent, maverick, individualist, eccentric, dropout, weirdo, rebel, dissenter, hereticExamples from the Web for swingers
Contemporary Examples of swingers
Those two words from the movie Swingers have come to represent American impulsiveness in all its glory.
Historical Examples of swingers
And with him went the monks and the musicians, and the candle-bearers, and the swingers of censers, and a great company.
A House of PomegranatesOscar Wilde
swinge
verb swinges, swingeing, swinging or swinged
Word Origin for swinge
Old English swengan; related to Old Frisian swenga to drench, Gothic afswaggwjan to cause to sway; see swing
swinger
noun
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