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单词 swingeing
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swingeingswingingn.

/ˈswɪndʒɪŋ/
Etymology: < swinge v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of swinge v.1; scourging, flogging, beating, dealing of blows.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person
threshingOE
sousingc1580
rib-roast1595
basting1599
swingeing1603
cuffing1610
lamming1611
rib-roasting1613
mauling1621
pinking1637
drubbing1650
diverberation1651
verberation1661
trimming1675
rib1699
thrashing1720
dousing1721
fagging1746
bumping1751
dusting1799
clapperclawing1806
milling1806
hiding1809
punishment1811
doing1814
bethumping1831
mugging1846
jacketing1850
frailing1851
pasting1851
towelling1851
tanning1863
fum-fum1885
ribbing1894
paddywhack1898
tanking1905
beating-up1915
shellacking1931
sloshing1931
clobbering1948
twatting1963
duffing-up1967
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 10 This course of swinging and beating seemeth meete for bondslaves.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 71 Whether it be direct infringing An Oath, if I should wave this swinging.
1844 W. T. Thompson Major Jones's Courtship (ed. 2) xxiii. 180 Go it, old fellow: give the goats a swinging every time you come across them.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. ii. 17 To these we paid no heed..being in the thick of swinging.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

swingeingadj.adv.

/ˈswɪndʒɪŋ/
Forms: Also 1500s–1800s swinging, 1600s–1800s swindging.
Etymology: < swinge v.1
1. That swinges; scourging, flogging. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [adjective] > that beats
swingeinga1614
flauging1682
flogging1682
society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [adjective] > that uses whip or scourge
scourgingc1595
whipping1598
swingeinga1614
lashing1645
flagellant1880
a1614 D. Dyke Schoole of Afflict. in Two Treat. (1618) ii. 339 The first Schoolemaster is Affliction. A sharp, and seuere and swinging Schoolemaster indeed.
1614 D. Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceiuing xvii. 219 He tels him of the seuere schoole-master, of the swindging roddes, of the hard feruler.
2.
a. Very forcible, great, or large; huge, immense. Chiefly, now only, colloquial or slang; mostly archaic or dialect. (Cf. thumping adj. 2, whopping adj.)
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
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. H4v May not a man haue a lustie fier there, a pot of good ale, a paire of cardes, a swinging peece of chalke, and a browne toast?
1597 R. Tofte Laura i. xiii. sig. B1v Thicke swinging showers.
a1600 Floddan Field (1664) viii. 80 And swindging swaps made many swelt.
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. vii. 111 Many other of those foolish and childish Penances may be seen in the Author quoted... There is one swinging one, I can't pass over.
1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper v. i. 58 I dream'd..that a great swinging Thief came in, and whipt 'em out.
1691 A. D'Anvers Academia 30 I had a swinging mind to go, And hear the Organs.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xii My Gentleman must pay him such swindging damages, that his acres may bleed for't.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 17 Feb. (O.H.S.) I. 187 That Swinging Orthodox G. Burnett Bp. of Sarum.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 13 Nov. (1948) II. 411 I..now have got a swinging cold.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. iii. 19 Lady Sarah Sadleir and Lady Betty Lawrance, will also die, and leave me swindging legacies.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. iii. 163 He hath devoured two swinging buttered Toasts this Morning for Breakfast. View more context for this quotation
1771 O. Goldsmith Haunch of Venison 82 At the top a fried liver and bacon were seen; At the bottom was tripe, in a swinging tureen.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxviii. 337 To make a swingeing profit.
1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye II. xii. 186 The horse fetched a good swinging price.
1876 R. Bridges Growth of Love xxvii Old Leviathan..Had never rib nor bray nor swindging fan Like his iron swimmer of the Clyde or Tyne.
1904 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 July 218/3 The jury gave swinging damages.
b. as adv. Hugely, immensely.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely
hugelyc1380
huge1508
enormly1538
monstruously?1548
massively1550
monstrously1602
a worlda1616
hugeouslya1643
immensely1654
vastly1664
swingingly1668
hugeous1673
gigantically1678
vast1688
swingeing1690
thumpingly1693
enormously1695
pancratically1727
immense1754
colossally1809
whooping1866
monumentally1877
pyramidically1886
pyramidally1891
galactically1968
1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon i. i. 6 He has sent me to will and require you to make a swinging long Night for him.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 16 Sept. (O.H.S.) I. 288 A swinging fat Wife.
1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 7 June (1948) I. 292 At dinner there fell the swingingest long shower.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake vi. 248 Our vicar still preaches that Peter and Poule Laid a swinging long curse on the bonny brown bowl.
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 20 A swingeing big Pig.
1872 C. D. Warner Backlog Stud. 246 Christmas Eve was..a placid, calm, swingeing cold night.
3. (After swinge n.1 1) Powerful, authoritative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > power > [adjective]
mightyeOE
craftyeOE
richeOE
strongeOE
wieldeOE
mainstrongOE
mightOE
keena1000
mightfullOE
mainfulc1225
reighc1225
starkc1275
boldc1300
fort13..
mightandc1350
strengthya1382
mightifula1400
bigc1400
powerfulc1450
puissant?c1450
mananta1500
mighteousa1500
potenta1500
potential?c1500
vailing1508
forcible1555
potentate1556
swingeing1567
powerable1580
strong-handed1598
strengthful1604
hogen mogen1648
powerlike1657
pollent1660
hogana1672
swayful1767
reverend1826
oomphy1955
kick-ass1977
1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs iii. 18 I wote not who doth rule the winds and beares the swinging swaye.

Derivatives

ˈswingingly adv. (also 'swingeingly) colloquial or slang very greatly or forcibly, hugely, immensely.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely
hugelyc1380
huge1508
enormly1538
monstruously?1548
massively1550
monstrously1602
a worlda1616
hugeouslya1643
immensely1654
vastly1664
swingingly1668
hugeous1673
gigantically1678
vast1688
swingeing1690
thumpingly1693
enormously1695
pancratically1727
immense1754
colossally1809
whooping1866
monumentally1877
pyramidically1886
pyramidally1891
galactically1968
1668 G. Etherege She wou'd if she Cou'd i. i. 5 Prethee let us Dine together to day, and be swingingly merry.
1673 J. Dryden Assignation iii. iii. 38 I have sin'd swingingly, against my Vow.
1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers i. i. 1 We drunk swingingly last night.
1703 D. Defoe Freeholder's Plea in Misc. 172 Only we find we are swingingly tax'd; and they tell us 'tis done by the Parliament.
1720 J. Swift Excellent New Song in Poems 31 This wicked rogue Waters..if swearing can do't, shall be swingingly mawl'd.
a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) i. 23 I reckon, your lordships were swingingly sous'd on the road?
1903 R. Kipling Lesson in Five Nations 6 This was not bestowèd us under the trees, nor yet in the shade of a tent, But swingingly, over eleven degrees of a bare brown continent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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