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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
swinger (plural swingers)
- 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 […]
- A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
- A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
- A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
- (politics, informal) A swing voter.
- 2019 May 16, Katharine Murphy, “Campaign catchup 2019: close race sparks pre-election jitters”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Shorten went to Blacktown to try and summon the spirit of Gough Whitlam to persuade the swingers it was time for a change of government. Shorten said vote one Labor, for the future.
- A swing ride.
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Translations[edit]
person who practices swinging
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈswɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun[edit]
swinger (plural swingers)
- One who swinges.
- (obsolete, slang) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
- 1648, Robert Herrick, “Twelfth Night”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:
- Add sugar, nutmeg, and ginger,
With store of ale too;
And thus ye must do
To make the wassail a swinger
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Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English swinger. Attested since 1971.
Noun[edit]
swinger c
- a swinger (person who practices swinging)
Declension[edit]
Declension of swinger | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | swinger | swingern | swingers | swingersarna |
Genitive | swingers | swingerns | swingers | swingersarnas |
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