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swinges
swinge
1
/
swɪndʒ
/
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[
swinj
]
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verb (used with object),
swinged,
swinge·ing.
British Dialect
.
to thrash; punish.
Origin:
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
Related forms
swing·er
/
ˈswɪn
dʒər
/
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[
swin
-jer
]
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,
noun
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swinge
2
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swɪndʒ
/
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swinj
]
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verb (used with object),
swinged,
swinge·ing.
to singe.
Origin:
1580–90;
obscurely akin to
singe
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World English Dictionary
swinge
(swɪndʒ)
—
vb
,
swinges
,
swingeing
,
swinging
,
swinged
archaic
(
tr
) to beat, flog, or punish
[Old English
swengan;
related to Old Frisian
swenga
to drench, Gothic
afswaggwjan
to cause to sway; see
swing
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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"And then at last our bliss
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Swinges
the scaly horror of his folded tail."
-John Milton
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