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1. • Archaic to beat, flog, or punish

     • swinge /swɪndʒ/ vb (swinges, swingeing, swinging, swinged) (transitive) archaic to beat, flog, or punish
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   What does swinge mean?

   • Call the quean up; if my men want shoe-thread, Ill swinge her in a stirrup. Wherby it appereth that some sort of youth will oft haue his swinge, although it be in a halter. Swinge definition: to thrash; punish.. See examples of SWINGE used in a sentence.

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   What is the swing?

   • Formed from a tangent of ideas raised from the study of interactions of water as space, the swing is the first in a series that play with interaction in rides and installations. Riders pass through openings in a waterfall created by precisely monitoring their path via axle-housed encoders, creating the thrill of narrowly escaping obstacles.

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   When was swinge first used?

   • The earliest known use of the verb swinge is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for swinge is from 1590, in the writing of Edmund Spenser, poet and administrator in Ireland. swinge is perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: singe v.

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   What does swengen mean?

   • Middle English swengen to shake, from Old English swengan; akin to Old English swingan alteration of singe 12th century, in the meaning defined above

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   transitive verb. dialect. : singe, scorch. Examples of swinge in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the Web. Verb. Not so reassuring for any commoners, faced with an ongoing cost-of-living crisis and swingeing arts cuts liable only to seal the drawbridge shut. Mike McCahill, Variety, 8 May 2023.

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   4 days ago · swinger (ˈswɪndʒər) noun. Word origin. [ 1250–1300; ME swengen to shake, smite, OE swengan, causative of swingan to swing, or denominative deriv. of OE sweng a blow] Word Frequency. swinge in American English. (swɪndʒ)

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   Swinge definition: to thrash; punish.. See examples of SWINGE used in a sentence.

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   From Middle English swengen (“to strike”), from Old English swenġan (“to dash, strike; to cause to swing”), from Proto-West Germanic *swangwijan, from Proto-Germanic *swangwijaną (“to bump, cause to swing”).

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   swinge (third-person singular simple present swinges, present participle swinging or swingeing, simple past and past participle swinged) 1. (obsolete) To singe. 1.1. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene.[…], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: 1.1.1. The scorching flame fore swingedall his face 2. (archa...

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   There is one meaning in OED's entry for the verb swinge. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in U.S. English.

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   Jun 1, 2024 · swinge in American English. (swɪndʒ ) verb transitive Word forms: swinged or ˈswingeing. Archaic. to punish with blows; beat; whip. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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   Define swinge. swinge synonyms, swinge pronunciation, swinge translation, English dictionary definition of swinge. tr.v. swinged , swinge·ing also swing·ing , swing·es Archaic To punish with blows; thrash; beat. swing′er n.