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单词 swapping
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swappingswoppingn.

/ˈswɒpɪŋ/
Etymology: < swap v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of swap v.
1. Striking, smiting; smiting or cutting off. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun]
buffetingc1240
dintc1330
smitingc1330
dentinga1398
wapping1398
strikingc1400
swippingc1420
dinginga1425
bobbing1526
swappingc1540
nicking1668
hitting1687
biffing1915
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > [noun] > cutting off
abscision?a1425
swappingc1540
abscission1604
resecation1607
resection1610
rescission1611
obtruncation1623
retrenchment1654
dock1667
offcut1674
docking1728
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1889 With swappyng of swerdys.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5785 Swordis, with swapping, swaruyt on helmes.
?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) l. 329 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 243 There were swinging out of sweords and swapping of heddes.
2. Exchanging of one thing for another; exchange, barter. slang or colloquial.
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the world > time > change > exchange > [noun]
change?c1225
changingc1350
interchangingc1374
exchangec1384
permutationa1398
commutation1496
achange1530
chopping and changing1548
interchange1548
exchanging1553
promutation1560
intercourse1576
counterchange1579
chopping1581
counter-cambio?1592
interchangementa1616
commerce1631
swapping1695
barter1819
counterchanging1881
switching1904
va-et-vient1919
switch-around1981
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. v. 231 Swapping or Bartering of one thing for another.
1695 Whether Parl. be not dissolved by Death of Princess of Orange 21 The Blessings..which we had gotten..by swopping of Kings.
a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. iii. vii. 110 The laws of chivalry..do not extend to the swapping one ass for another.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 23 After having grown old in the ways of the world..hypocrisy, ‘swapping’, trading, and evil speaking.
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 42 Dunsey Cass, whose taste for swopping and betting might turn out to be a sowing of something worse than wild oats.
1900 W. R. Moody & A. P. Fitt Life D. L. Moody ii. 31Swapping’ is a Yankee weakness.
3. Finance. The action or process of making a swap (sense 3).
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > money-changing > types of
rechange1487
foreign exchange1623
outchange1695
forex1947
swapping1957
swap1963
1957 Times 19 Dec. 15/1 There was rather more outright buying of Dominion and Colonial stocks.., as well as a fair amount of swapping among Crown Colony loans.
1971 Guardian 8 Sept. 1/8 Of this inflow, £500 millions was used, indirectly, to support the dollar by ‘swapping forward’—Britain actually claimed only a small proportion of the foreign currency due to her, and took the rest in foreign IOUs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

swappingswoppingadj.

Forms: Also Middle English schwoppinge.
Etymology: < swap v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswapping.
1. †Striking; †flapping; dialect swooping, pouncing.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [adjective] > that strikes
smitinga1382
swappingc1450
dinting1566
denting1575
bobbing1581
striking1625
hitting1632
jutting1776
pucking1922
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > flapping loosely
flaffinga1522
flapping1592
swapping1642
flappish1665
flopping1679
flip-flap1841
slatting1883
aflap1887
flappy1905
the world > animals > birds > bird of prey > [adjective] > swooping
stooping1754
swapping1821
c1450 Cov. Myst., Innoc. (Shaks. Soc.) 182 With swappynge swerde now is he shorn The heed ryght fro the nekke!
1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 19 With swapping Besome in her hand.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. E7 Fowls flie by, and with their swapping wings Beat the inconstant aire.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 18 Chick, and duck, and gosling gone astray; All falling prizes to the swopping kite.
2. Very big, ‘thumping’, ‘whopping’. slang or colloquial.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great
swappingc1440
bumping1566
thumping1576
swingeinga1592
knocking1598
gigantical1604
gigantine1605
gigantean1611
gigantal?1614
thundering1618
whoppinga1625
humming1654
rapping1657
whisking1673
threshing1707
sousing1735
nation1765
heroic1785
runaway1790
spanking1791
gigantic1797
whacking1797
cracking1834
ringing1834
bouncing1842
walloping1847
stavingc1850
banging1864
howling1865
whooping1866
smacking1888
God almighty1913
Christ almighty1961
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > exceptionally large of its kind
gurta1400
swappingc1440
swappit?a1513
strongc1540
thwacking1567
thumping1576
bouncing1579
swingeinga1592
whoppinga1625
rapping1657
spankinga1666
whisking1673
swagging1731
skelping?a1786
whacking1797
slapping1825
plumping1832
walloping1847
slashing1854
smacking1888
plonking1896
sollicking1946
c1440 Walsingham in Hone Year Bk. (1832) 90 In delvinge he myghte..find a schwoppinge mallarde imprisoned in the sinke or sewere.
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Countercuffe sig. Aiij Pasquill met him..with..a swapping Ale-dagger at his back.
1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iv. ii Ay, marry, sir, here's swapping sins indeed!
c1662 All Souls Mallard Song in A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 513 Hee was a swapping swapping mallard.
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 425/1 A swopping mallard [was] found which used to come and feed there.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Oct. 6/1 We have seven professors of the jargon called law, and all with swopping salaries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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