swinger

English

Etymology 1

to swing + -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋə(r)
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡə(ɹ)

Noun

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swings.
   • 2009, Peter Handke, Krishna Winston, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos (page 438)

     And now that swing appears on a certain playground in the dusk, still swinging without the swinger, who has disappeared […]

2. A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
3. A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.

Translations

person who practices swinging

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 交換配偶的人 (cmn), 交换配偶的人 (cmn) (jiāohuàn pèi'ǒu de rén)

• Finnish: pintaliitäjä (fi)
• French: échangiste (fr) m and f

• German: Swinger (de) m, Swingerin (de) f
• Japanese: スインガー (ja) (suingā)
• Russian: свингер (ru) (svínger) m

Etymology 2

to swinge + -er

Noun

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swinges.
2. (obsolete, slang) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Herrick to this entry?)

Anagrams

• wingers