swinge
English
Etymology
From Middle English swenge (“to strike”), from Old English swengan (“to dash, strike; to cause to swing”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Verb
swinge (third-person singular simple present swinges, present participle swinging or swingeing, simple past swinged or swonge, past participle swinged or swongen) (forms with o are obsolete)
- (obsolete) To singe.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
- Milton
- Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
- Milton
- (archaic) To strike hard.
- Shakespeare
- I had swinged him soundly.
- C. Dryden
- And swinges his own vices in his son.
- Aphra Behn (1640-89) The Feigned Courtesans. This edition: (The plays of) Aphra Behn. Oxford University press 2000. p.233. →ISBN
- Sir Feeble: Tis jelousy, the old worm that bites. [To Sir Cautious] Whom is it that you suspect.
- Sir Cautious: Alas I know not whom to suspect, I would I did; but if you discover him, I would swinge him.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) To chastise; to beat.
- The marriage of Wit and Wisdom (1579)
- O, the passion of God, so I shall be swinged.
- So, my bones shall be bangedǃ
- The porridge pot is stolenː what, Lob, say,
- Come away, and be hangedǃ
- The marriage of Wit and Wisdom (1579)
Related terms
Noun
swinge (plural swinges)
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