单词 | swapping |
释义 | swappingswoppingn. The action of swap v. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 31 ‘Swapping’ is a Yankee weakness. 3. Finance. The action or process of making a swap (sense 3). ΘΚΠ 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. 1. †Striking; †flapping; dialect swooping, pouncing. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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