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swinge

1 American  
[swinj] / swɪndʒ /

verb (used with object)

British Dialect.
swinged, swingeing
  1. to thrash; punish.


swinge 2 American  
[swinj] / swɪndʒ /

verb (used with object)

swinged, swingeing
  1. to singe.


swinge British  
/ swɪndʒ /

verb

  1. archaic (tr) to beat, flog, or punish

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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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 Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

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

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 Spenser, Edmund

Possum skin is jes lak shoat skin; Jes' you swinge an' scrope it down, Tek a good sha'p knife an' sco' it, Den you bake it good an' brown.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean

It hurled Dyckman against and along the big table, just as he put home one magnificent, majestic, mellifluous swinge with all his body in it.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

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