swingern.¹

/ˈswɪndʒə/

Forms: Also 1500s swenȝour, sweyngeour, swingeour, swingeor, swyngeour, swyngor, swenger, sweingeor, 1600s Scottish swyngour, swynger, swounger.

Etymology: Of uncertain origin; probably a cant term and perhaps a derivative of early Flemish swentsen ‘vagari’ (Kilian), originally with the sense of ‘vagabond’; compare early modern German schwänzer ‘otiosus, ambulator’, schwänzen to go about aimlessly, in thieves’ cant, to ride, travel.

Scottish ? Obsolete.

A rogue, rascal, scoundrel.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun]

harlot?c1225

truantc1290

shreward1297

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

custronc1400

knapea1450

sloven?a1475

limmerc1485

knavatec1506

smaik?1507

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

varletc1540

losthope?c1550

makeshift1554

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

crack-halter1573

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

scaba1592

bezonian1592

slave1592

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

roly-poly1602

canter1608

cantler1611

gue1612

fraudsman1613

Cathayana1616

crack-hempa1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

trickster1711

shake-bag1794

sinner1809

cad1838

badmash1843

scattermouch1892

jazzbo1914

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal

harlot?c1225

knavec1275

truantc1290

shreward1297

boinarda1300

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

knapea1450

lotterela1450

limmerc1485

Tutivillus1498

knavatec1506

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

cust1535

rabiator1535

varletc1540

Jack1548

kern1556

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

tutiviller1568

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

scroyle1602

canter1608

cantler1611

skelm1611

gue1612

Cathayana1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

marrow1656

Algerine1671

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

shake-bag1794

badling1825

tiger1827

two-for-his-heels1837

ral1846

skeezicks1850

nut1882

gun1890

scattermouch1892

tug1896

natkhat1901

jazzbo1914

scutter1940

bar steward1945

hoor1965

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 68 Swingeouris and scurrevagis, swankeis and swanis.

1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 962 Tha sweir swyngeoris thay tuke of me non heid.

1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. viii. 31 Sweingeor, cum, sweir þe saikles sone, Deny þe evill þat þow hes done.

1613 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. X. 3 Quhat wer it to tak the buttoun or blason af his breist, and to lay ane lumder upoun sic a swounger as throw [read thow] art.

1618 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 356 Mr. Henrie wes convict..for iniuring the said Willeame Gray..in calling him febill swynger.

1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 175 Ȝour burgh of beggeris is ane nest, To schout thai swentȝouris will not rest.

1640 Rothes in M. Napier Mem. Montrose (1856) I. xiii. 231 That swinger, the Treasurer, has so calumniated the whole estates to his Majesty.

1739 A. Nicol Nature without Art in Poems (1766) 19 If some auld swinger snap to speak Of pink-ey'd queans, he gives a Squeek.

attributive.1542 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 68 Iohne Innes wrangit in the calling of Nicoll Moressone swenger carle and birsyn carle.1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. 82 Ane swyngeou^r coife, amangis the wyvis.

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swingern.²

/ˈswɪndʒə/

Etymology: < swinge v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

†1. One who acts vigorously or forcibly; a vigorous performer; a powerful fellow. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigorous or energetic person

pealerc1400

terrier1532

swinger1583

whipster1590

fireman1648

my (also me) hearty1735

whitherer1790

spunkie1806

vigorist1807

spunk1808

goer1811

smiter1823

hard hitter1831

blue hen's chicken (also chick)1859

stem-winder1875

vital force1886

live wire1896

towser1901

powerhouse1908

jazzer1912

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Liii The three Sisters Litæ..were left a loofe behind her far out of sight, not able to keepe pace with such a swinger.

1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida i. ii Is't not a brave Man that? he's a Swinger, many a Grecian he has laid with his Face upward.

1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper i. i. 5 Before George, a proper fellow! and a Swinger he shou'd be, by his make!

1684 T. Southerne Disappointment ii. i. 14 I' gad I was a Swinger in those Days: Let me—I cou'd have done—I do'nt know what I could have done.

a. Something forcible or effective; esp. something very big; a ‘whopper’. colloquial or slang; now rare or local. Cf. swingeing adj. 2.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > [noun] > effective thing

swinger1599

bad boy1969

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind

swinger1599

rapper1653

thumper1660

whisker1668

spanker1751

slapper1781

whopper1785

skelper1790

smasher1794

pelter1811

swapper1818

jumbo1823

sneezer1823

whacker1825

whanger1825

infant1832

bulger1835

three-decker1835

bouncer1842

snorter1859

whalera1860

plonker1862

bruiser1868

snapper1874

plumper1881

boomer1885

heavy1897

sollicker1898

sanakatowzer1903

Moby Dicka1974

stonker1987

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > something exceedingly great in degree

the utter1584

swinger1599

a devil of a ——1604

thumper1660

whisker1668

a (also the, one) hell of a ——c1680

swapperc1700

spanker1751

whopper1785

whacker1825

whanger1825

utmost1856

howler1872

hell1931

1599 Warning for Faire Women ii. 1524 I am sure there is a gallowes big enough to hold them both..'tis a swinger yfayth.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Bb5 And thus ye must doe To make the wassaile a swinger [rhyme ginger].

1677 2nd Pacquet Advices 42 They are likely to give us nothing New but a New Parliament, and that shall be a Swinger, as the Dissolver hath promised us.

1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 25 Jan. (1948) II. 608 I saw a hundred Tiles fallen down, & one Swinger fell about 40 yards before me, that would have killd a Horse.

a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 70 This motion at that time was indeed a swinger; for, in consequence, the execution of it by such a pardon of all convictions had lost the King irrecoverably.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §10 236 We had..diverse [plots] of most desperate Reach; witness that of Fitzharris, which was a Swinger.

1853 C. B. Mansfield Paraguay, Brazil, & Plate (1856) 425 I started off..with a tremendous toothache, one of my old swingers.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 557 In Virginia..boys have for more than two centuries called a large snake or other formidable creature a swindger.

†b. spec. A great or bold lie, a ‘bang’. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie > blatant, extravagant

a lie with a latchet1580

rapper1611

banger1657

thumper1660

whisker1668

swinger1671

thwacker1674

strapper1677

volunteer1680

hummer1699

swapperc1700

rouser?1770

plumper1776

whopper1791

bouncer1803

yanker1822

rattler1825

whacker1825

falsism1835

crumper1855

bang1879

out-and-outer1880

big lie1939

1671 J. Eachard Some Observ. Answer to Grounds Contempt of Clergy 173 How will his puling Conscience be put to it, to rap out presently half a dozen swingers to get off cleaverly?

1712 Proposals for printing Treat. Art of Political Lying 19 The Whig-Party do wisely, to try the Credulity of the People sometimes by Swingers.

1781 M. Madan Thelyphthora III. 148 Is it possible that, when St. Bernard told this swinger, he could believe it, himself?

c. A forcible blow or stroke.

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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > hard or vigorous striking > a hard or vigorous blow

rackc1300

pelta1540

sparring-blowa1690

racket1710

whack1737

skite1825

slogger1829

slug1830

swinger1836

slog1846

crump1850

bitch slap1987

1836 E. Howard Rattlin xxv He applied across my shoulders one of the most hearty..swingers that ever left a wale behind it.

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins II. xi. 169 Another pleasant occupation was having to jump two or three feet from the ground, and then to be knocked down by his master, who stood on a form for the purpose. This was called ‘tipping a neat swinger’.

1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Swinger (Charterhouse), a box on the ears.

3. A tool with a raised point, used for levering timbers, etc.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

swingern.³

Brit.

/ˈswɪŋə/, U.S.

/ˈswɪŋər/

I. [ < swing v.¹ + -er suffix¹ 2] One who or that which swings.

1. One who flourishes something about, or causes it to oscillate.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [noun] > flourishing or brandishing > one who

swinger1543

flourisher1598

brandisherc1600

1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. Lviij ^v Holye water swyngers, and euensonge clatterers.

1897 Daily News 27 May 2/5 Club Swinging... The well-known swinger of Indian clubs, brought his attempt to swing a pair of two pound clubs for thirty consecutive hours to a successful conclusion.

(a) A person who swings.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [noun] > participants

swinger1712

kite-flyer1844

yo-yoist1933

yo-yoer1973

paintballer1989

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 492. ⁋3 These [familiar romps], Mr. Spectator, are the Swingers... They get on Ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their Men Visitants.

1877 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 331 The strong man becomes a swinger in hammocks, a sucker of oranges, a smoker of pipes.

(b) A Hindu who performs the penance of swinging: see swing v.¹ 6 (b).

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society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > among Hindus > person undergoing

swinger1793

1793 Medical Spectator II. No. 39. 242 Every thing being ready for the swinger, he kneels upon the ground, when a very dexterous operator fixes two strong iron hooks into the common integuments betwixt his shoulders.

1893 Times 11 July 3/6 The writer afterwards interviewed a swinger. He was rather the worse for opium, but none the worse for his swing.

b. A thing that swings to and fro; †a swing for recreation; a kind of lever; a coat with swinging tails or skirt. See also jimswinger n. three legs and a swinger: said of an animal which has only three sound legs, the fourth hanging or dragging limp through injury; hence of a dilapidated chair, etc.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > swing > [noun]

tottera1387

merry-totter1440

shuggie-shue1653

swinger1662

swing1687

high-flyer1886

swing set1951

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > lever > [noun] > others

hammer1546

pawl1730

swinger1825

key1837

throw lever1866

sweep-rod1867

bell-crank1881

control lever1887

touch key1957

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > tail-coat > types of

coatee1775

swallowtail1835

claw-hammer coat1842

swallowtail coat1848

claw hammer1855

swinger1863

steel pen1873

jimswinger1895

Newmarket overcoat1960

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > other disorders > animal

three legs and a swinger1893

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs

farthingale chair1552

side chair1582

high chair1609

scroll chair1614

Turkey chair1683

curule chair1695

reading chair1745

rush-bottom1754

conversation-chair1793

Windsor tub1800

Trafalgar chair1808

beehive-chair1816

nursing chair1826

Hitchcockc1828

toilet seat1829

kangaroo1834

prie-dieu1838

tub-chair1839

barrel-chair1850

Cromwell chair1868

office chair1874

swivel-chair1885

steamer-chair1886

suggan chair1888

lawn chair1895

saddle seat1895

Bombay chair1896

veranda-chair1902

X chair1904

Yorkshire chair1906

three legs and a swinger1916

saddlebag1919

riempie stool1933

gaspipe chair1934

slipper chair1938

Eames chair1946

contour chair1948

sling-back1948

sling chair1957

booster chair1960

booster seat1967

beanbag1969

sack chair1970

papasan1980

Muskoka chair1987

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 93 I have seen publick Swinging-places, They..giving two or three pence to little Boies who keep Swingers ready.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 426 19 and 20 act as swingers or levers from the joints 21 and 22.

1863 B. Brierley Chrons. Waverlow 147 The latter people did not care for misfits at all, and would don a broad-lapped ‘swinger’ or a swallow-tailed coat with equal indifference.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 12 May 1/3 Royal Hampton had no pretensions to winning although he took the City and Suburban on ‘three legs and a swinger’ in the following spring.

1916 Countess Barcynska Honey-pot ii Be careful of the chair! It's a real antique, only three legs and a swinger!

c. Cricket. A ball that swings in the air on delivery; an inswinger or outswinger.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball

full toss1826

long hop1830

twister1832

bail ball1833

bailer1833

grubber1837

slow ball1838

wide1838

ground ball1839

shooter1843

slower ball1846

twiddler1847

creeper1848

lob1851

sneak1851

sneaker1851

slow1854

bumper1855

teaser1856

daisy-cutter1857

popper1857

yorker1861

sharpshooter1863

headball1866

screwball1866

underhand1866

skimmerc1868

grub1870

ramrod1870

raymonder1870

round-armer1871

grass cutter1876

short pitch1877

leg break1878

lob ball1880

off-break1883

donkey-drop1888

tice1888

fast break1889

leg-breaker1892

kicker1894

spinner1895

wrong 'un1897

googly1903

fizzer1904

dolly1906

short ball1911

wrong 'un1911

bosie1912

bouncer1913

flyer1913

percher1913

finger-spinner1920

inswinger1920

outswinger1920

swinger1920

off-spinner1924

away swinger1925

Chinaman1929

overspinner1930

tweaker1938

riser1944

leg-cutter1949

seamer1952

leggy1954

off-cutter1955

squatter1955

flipper1959

lifter1959

cutter1960

beamer1961

loosener1962

doosra1999

1920 R. H. Lyttelton & E. R. Wilson in P. F. Warner Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) vii. 266 He bowled a swinger, an off break, and a fast ball, which went with his arm.

1948 Sporting Mirror 21 May 2/3 Heath bowls medium fast swingers and opens the bowling.

1966 E. R. Dexter Ted Dexter Declares ii. 21 They gave me a bit of bowling and I started with medium-pace swingers and off cutters.

1977 Listener 11 Aug. 182/4 Waving at a late swinger outside the off stump.

d. Gunnery. A battery which is able to produce a sweeping fire.

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1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 252/1 The fourth battery is a ‘swinger’, and covers two units in each side of its own unit, making 5,000 yd. of front.

e. A gramophone record with an eccentric spindle-hole.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record

pre-release1871

record album1904

re-release1907

ten-inch1908

twelve-incher1909

demonstration record1911

pressing1912

swinger1924

repressing1927

transcription1931

long-player1932

rush release1935

pop record1937

album1945

demonstration disc1947

pop disc1947

pop single1947

long-play1948

picture disc1948

781949

single1949

forty-five1950

demo disc1952

EP1952

shellac1954

top of the pops1956

gold disc1957

acetate1962

platinum disc1964

chartbuster1965

miss1965

cover1966

reissue1966

pirate label1968

rock record1968

thirty-three (and a third)1968

sampler1969

white-label1970

double album1971

dubplate1976

seven-inch1977

mini-album1980

joint1991

1924 Gramophone Jan. 155 Wavy-Tone Records or ‘swingers’.

1929 P. Wilson & G. W. Webb Mod. Gramophones xi. § 8. 252 Only too often one finds that the hole is slightly eccentric, and then we get what is known as a ‘swinger’.

1935 H. C. Bryson Gramophone Rec. vi. 147 The central hole has to be made perfectly true, for were it the least eccentric with the grooves, the records produced from it would be swingers.

1961 E. N. Bradley Records & Gramophone Equipm. i. 22 The most likely cause of wow is a swinger—a record whose spindle hole is not exactly central and so turns eccentrically as a result.

1981 Hi-Fi Answers Apr. 74/2 If you press the grooves off~centre relative to the centre hole it sounds terrible. A swinger that would just be okay at 33 will not do at 45.

a. Music. A musician who plays jazz with swing.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > jazz musician > types of

faker1903

swing man1903

honky-tonker1910

Chicagoan1924

stomper1925

Dixielander1927

modernist1932

swinger1934

ride man1935

all-star1937

swingster1937

hamfat1938

mouldy fig1945

traditionalist1949

trad1951

West Coaster1954

mainstreamer1961

soulster1961

New Thinger1964

1934 in B. Rust Jazz Records 1897–1942 (1969) 1516 (recording artists) The Six Swingers.

1958 K. Goodwin in P. Gammond Decca Bk. of Jazz xiii. 151 There are some real swingers on the coast, among them a young coloured pianist—Hampton Hawes.

1962 Sunday Times 10 June (Colour Suppl.) 3 Unexcelled as a technician and swinger, Baker is said by some to lack a musical heart and personality of his own.

b. A lively person who keeps up with what is considered fashionable; one who is ‘with it’.

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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > following of fashion > follower of fashion

fashion-monger1598

fashionist?1624

à la mode1651

modist1662

high-stepper1852

hipcat1937

stilyaga1955

swinger1965

trendy1968

voguie1973

trendoid1985

hipster1989

1965 P. Kael I lost it at Movies 19 I think in treating indiscriminateness as a value, she has become a real swinger.

1966 Economist 11 June 1240/3 No attempt has been made to attract the wilder London ‘swingers’ of Time-fame.

1967 H. Kemelman Nine Mile Walk (1968) 149 In the parlance of the undergraduate..Professor John Baxter Bowman..was a swinger, with a taste and interest in clothes not usually associated with the professoriat.

1972 J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) xiv. 96 The Dukum Inn..looked..like an aging swinger getting up in the morning with his teeth still in the water glass.

1977 M. French Women's Room i. iv. 12 I'd meet some middle-aged swinger with a deep tan and sideburns.

c. A person who is sexually promiscuous; spec. one who advocates or engages in group sex or the swapping of sexual partners. Also, a homosexual. slang.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > promiscuity > person

make-out1963

swinger1964

1964 W. & J. Breedlove Swap Clubs i. 37 We will on occasion utilize ‘swinger’ and ‘swinging’ to describe the advocate of sexual partner exchange and the exercising of that practice.

1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 vi. 147 I had a date last night with an eight-year-old, And she's a swinger just like me.

1972 G. Baxt Burning Sappho iii. 47 Flo pondered the invitation... ‘You sure you ain't no swinger?’ ‘I assure you my dear,’ said Lady Molly..‘I am not a womaniser.’

1977 Time 4 July 38/2 Some operators have converted nudist colonies into ‘swinger camps’, the new rural retreats for the randy.

†4. ? A large sword. (Cf. early Flem. swinghe.)

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > long or large sword

longswordc1275

slaugh-sword1548

slaughter sword1569

katana1613

bum-bladea1640

swinger1673

whanger1826

espadon1846

two-hander1888

1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 42 The old Bishops..that ne'r..so much as knew how to set the Periwig and Galloshoes, much less the true timing and accenting of a Rapper, and double swinger.

II. [ < swing n.² 12d + -er suffix¹ 1]

5. Each of the middle pair of horses in a team of six.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > team of > horse in middle of

swingera1872

a1872 Trip to the West 137 (S. de Vere) Each wagon is usually drawn by three span of mules, of which the lighter and forward, are leaders, the next pair swingers, and the rear, or heaviest pair, wheelers.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1513

n.²1583

n.³1543

单词	swinger
释义	swingern.¹ /ˈswɪndʒə/ Forms: Also 1500s swenȝour, sweyngeour, swingeour, swingeor, swyngeour, swyngor, swenger, sweingeor, 1600s Scottish swyngour, swynger, swounger. Etymology: Of uncertain origin; probably a cant term and perhaps a derivative of early Flemish swentsen ‘vagari’ (Kilian), originally with the sense of ‘vagabond’; compare early modern German schwänzer ‘otiosus, ambulator’, schwänzen to go about aimlessly, in thieves’ cant, to ride, travel. Scottish ? Obsolete. A rogue, rascal, scoundrel. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] harlot?c1225 truantc1290 shreward1297 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 custronc1400 knapea1450 sloven?a1475 limmerc1485 knavatec1506 smaik?1507 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 varletc1540 losthope?c1550 makeshift1554 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 crack-halter1573 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 scaba1592 bezonian1592 slave1592 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 roly-poly1602 canter1608 cantler1611 gue1612 fraudsman1613 Cathayana1616 crack-hempa1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 trickster1711 shake-bag1794 sinner1809 cad1838 badmash1843 scattermouch1892 jazzbo1914 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal harlot?c1225 knavec1275 truantc1290 shreward1297 boinarda1300 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 knapea1450 lotterela1450 limmerc1485 Tutivillus1498 knavatec1506 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 cust1535 rabiator1535 varletc1540 Jack1548 kern1556 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 tutiviller1568 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 scroyle1602 canter1608 cantler1611 skelm1611 gue1612 Cathayana1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 marrow1656 Algerine1671 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 shake-bag1794 badling1825 tiger1827 two-for-his-heels1837 ral1846 skeezicks1850 nut1882 gun1890 scattermouch1892 tug1896 natkhat1901 jazzbo1914 scutter1940 bar steward1945 hoor1965 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid viii. Prol. 68 Swingeouris and scurrevagis, swankeis and swanis. 1528 D. Lindsay Dreme 962 Tha sweir swyngeoris thay tuke of me non heid. 1567 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. viii. 31 Sweingeor, cum, sweir þe saikles sone, Deny þe evill þat þow hes done. 1613 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. X. 3 Quhat wer it to tak the buttoun or blason af his breist, and to lay ane lumder upoun sic a swounger as throw [read thow] art. 1618 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 356 Mr. Henrie wes convict..for iniuring the said Willeame Gray..in calling him febill swynger. 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 175 Ȝour burgh of beggeris is ane nest, To schout thai swentȝouris will not rest. 1640 Rothes in M. Napier Mem. Montrose (1856) I. xiii. 231 That swinger, the Treasurer, has so calumniated the whole estates to his Majesty. 1739 A. Nicol Nature without Art in Poems (1766) 19 If some auld swinger snap to speak Of pink-ey'd queans, he gives a Squeek. attributive.1542 in W. Cramond Rec. Elgin (1903) I. 68 Iohne Innes wrangit in the calling of Nicoll Moressone swenger carle and birsyn carle.1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. 82 Ane swyngeou^r coife, amangis the wyvis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2021). swingern.² /ˈswɪndʒə/ Etymology: < swinge v.¹ + -er suffix¹. †1. One who acts vigorously or forcibly; a vigorous performer; a powerful fellow. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > vigorous or energetic person pealerc1400 terrier1532 swinger1583 whipster1590 fireman1648 my (also me) hearty1735 whitherer1790 spunkie1806 vigorist1807 spunk1808 goer1811 smiter1823 hard hitter1831 blue hen's chicken (also chick)1859 stem-winder1875 vital force1886 live wire1896 towser1901 powerhouse1908 jazzer1912 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Liii The three Sisters Litæ..were left a loofe behind her far out of sight, not able to keepe pace with such a swinger. 1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida i. ii Is't not a brave Man that? he's a Swinger, many a Grecian he has laid with his Face upward. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper i. i. 5 Before George, a proper fellow! and a Swinger he shou'd be, by his make! 1684 T. Southerne Disappointment ii. i. 14 I' gad I was a Swinger in those Days: Let me—I cou'd have done—I do'nt know what I could have done. 2. a. Something forcible or effective; esp. something very big; a ‘whopper’. colloquial or slang; now rare or local. Cf. swingeing adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > [noun] > effective thing swinger1599 bad boy1969 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > an exceptionally large thing of its kind swinger1599 rapper1653 thumper1660 whisker1668 spanker1751 slapper1781 whopper1785 skelper1790 smasher1794 pelter1811 swapper1818 jumbo1823 sneezer1823 whacker1825 whanger1825 infant1832 bulger1835 three-decker1835 bouncer1842 snorter1859 whalera1860 plonker1862 bruiser1868 snapper1874 plumper1881 boomer1885 heavy1897 sollicker1898 sanakatowzer1903 Moby Dicka1974 stonker1987 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > something exceedingly great in degree the utter1584 swinger1599 a devil of a ——1604 thumper1660 whisker1668 a (also the, one) hell of a ——c1680 swapperc1700 spanker1751 whopper1785 whacker1825 whanger1825 utmost1856 howler1872 hell1931 1599 Warning for Faire Women ii. 1524 I am sure there is a gallowes big enough to hold them both..'tis a swinger yfayth. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Bb5 And thus ye must doe To make the wassaile a swinger [rhyme ginger]. 1677 2nd Pacquet Advices 42 They are likely to give us nothing New but a New Parliament, and that shall be a Swinger, as the Dissolver hath promised us. 1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 25 Jan. (1948) II. 608 I saw a hundred Tiles fallen down, & one Swinger fell about 40 yards before me, that would have killd a Horse. a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 70 This motion at that time was indeed a swinger; for, in consequence, the execution of it by such a pardon of all convictions had lost the King irrecoverably. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) ii. iv. §10 236 We had..diverse [plots] of most desperate Reach; witness that of Fitzharris, which was a Swinger. 1853 C. B. Mansfield Paraguay, Brazil, & Plate (1856) 425 I started off..with a tremendous toothache, one of my old swingers. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 557 In Virginia..boys have for more than two centuries called a large snake or other formidable creature a swindger. †b. spec. A great or bold lie, a ‘bang’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie > blatant, extravagant a lie with a latchet1580 rapper1611 banger1657 thumper1660 whisker1668 swinger1671 thwacker1674 strapper1677 volunteer1680 hummer1699 swapperc1700 rouser?1770 plumper1776 whopper1791 bouncer1803 yanker1822 rattler1825 whacker1825 falsism1835 crumper1855 bang1879 out-and-outer1880 big lie1939 1671 J. Eachard Some Observ. Answer to Grounds Contempt of Clergy 173 How will his puling Conscience be put to it, to rap out presently half a dozen swingers to get off cleaverly? 1712 Proposals for printing Treat. Art of Political Lying 19 The Whig-Party do wisely, to try the Credulity of the People sometimes by Swingers. 1781 M. Madan Thelyphthora III. 148 Is it possible that, when St. Bernard told this swinger, he could believe it, himself? c. A forcible blow or stroke. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > hard or vigorous striking > a hard or vigorous blow rackc1300 pelta1540 sparring-blowa1690 racket1710 whack1737 skite1825 slogger1829 slug1830 swinger1836 slog1846 crump1850 bitch slap1987 1836 E. Howard Rattlin xxv He applied across my shoulders one of the most hearty..swingers that ever left a wale behind it. 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins II. xi. 169 Another pleasant occupation was having to jump two or three feet from the ground, and then to be knocked down by his master, who stood on a form for the purpose. This was called ‘tipping a neat swinger’. 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Swinger (Charterhouse), a box on the ears. 3. A tool with a raised point, used for levering timbers, etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). swingern.³ Brit. /ˈswɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈswɪŋər/ I. [ < swing v.¹ + -er suffix¹ 2] One who or that which swings. 1. One who flourishes something about, or causes it to oscillate. ΘΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [noun] > flourishing or brandishing > one who swinger1543 flourisher1598 brandisherc1600 1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. Lviij ^v Holye water swyngers, and euensonge clatterers. 1897 Daily News 27 May 2/5 Club Swinging... The well-known swinger of Indian clubs, brought his attempt to swing a pair of two pound clubs for thirty consecutive hours to a successful conclusion. 2. a. (a) A person who swings. ΘΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [noun] > participants swinger1712 kite-flyer1844 yo-yoist1933 yo-yoer1973 paintballer1989 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 492. ⁋3 These [familiar romps], Mr. Spectator, are the Swingers... They get on Ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their Men Visitants. 1877 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 331 The strong man becomes a swinger in hammocks, a sucker of oranges, a smoker of pipes. (b) A Hindu who performs the penance of swinging: see swing v.¹ 6 (b). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > among Hindus > person undergoing swinger1793 1793 Medical Spectator II. No. 39. 242 Every thing being ready for the swinger, he kneels upon the ground, when a very dexterous operator fixes two strong iron hooks into the common integuments betwixt his shoulders. 1893 Times 11 July 3/6 The writer afterwards interviewed a swinger. He was rather the worse for opium, but none the worse for his swing. b. A thing that swings to and fro; †a swing for recreation; a kind of lever; a coat with swinging tails or skirt. See also jimswinger n. three legs and a swinger: said of an animal which has only three sound legs, the fourth hanging or dragging limp through injury; hence of a dilapidated chair, etc. ΘΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > swing > [noun] tottera1387 merry-totter1440 shuggie-shue1653 swinger1662 swing1687 high-flyer1886 swing set1951 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > lever > [noun] > others hammer1546 pawl1730 swinger1825 key1837 throw lever1866 sweep-rod1867 bell-crank1881 control lever1887 touch key1957 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > tail-coat > types of coatee1775 swallowtail1835 claw-hammer coat1842 swallowtail coat1848 claw hammer1855 swinger1863 steel pen1873 jimswinger1895 Newmarket overcoat1960 the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > other disorders > animal three legs and a swinger1893 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs farthingale chair1552 side chair1582 high chair1609 scroll chair1614 Turkey chair1683 curule chair1695 reading chair1745 rush-bottom1754 conversation-chair1793 Windsor tub1800 Trafalgar chair1808 beehive-chair1816 nursing chair1826 Hitchcockc1828 toilet seat1829 kangaroo1834 prie-dieu1838 tub-chair1839 barrel-chair1850 Cromwell chair1868 office chair1874 swivel-chair1885 steamer-chair1886 suggan chair1888 lawn chair1895 saddle seat1895 Bombay chair1896 veranda-chair1902 X chair1904 Yorkshire chair1906 three legs and a swinger1916 saddlebag1919 riempie stool1933 gaspipe chair1934 slipper chair1938 Eames chair1946 contour chair1948 sling-back1948 sling chair1957 booster chair1960 booster seat1967 beanbag1969 sack chair1970 papasan1980 Muskoka chair1987 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 93 I have seen publick Swinging-places, They..giving two or three pence to little Boies who keep Swingers ready. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 426 19 and 20 act as swingers or levers from the joints 21 and 22. 1863 B. Brierley Chrons. Waverlow 147 The latter people did not care for misfits at all, and would don a broad-lapped ‘swinger’ or a swallow-tailed coat with equal indifference. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 12 May 1/3 Royal Hampton had no pretensions to winning although he took the City and Suburban on ‘three legs and a swinger’ in the following spring. 1916 Countess Barcynska Honey-pot ii Be careful of the chair! It's a real antique, only three legs and a swinger! c. Cricket. A ball that swings in the air on delivery; an inswinger or outswinger. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball full toss1826 long hop1830 twister1832 bail ball1833 bailer1833 grubber1837 slow ball1838 wide1838 ground ball1839 shooter1843 slower ball1846 twiddler1847 creeper1848 lob1851 sneak1851 sneaker1851 slow1854 bumper1855 teaser1856 daisy-cutter1857 popper1857 yorker1861 sharpshooter1863 headball1866 screwball1866 underhand1866 skimmerc1868 grub1870 ramrod1870 raymonder1870 round-armer1871 grass cutter1876 short pitch1877 leg break1878 lob ball1880 off-break1883 donkey-drop1888 tice1888 fast break1889 leg-breaker1892 kicker1894 spinner1895 wrong 'un1897 googly1903 fizzer1904 dolly1906 short ball1911 wrong 'un1911 bosie1912 bouncer1913 flyer1913 percher1913 finger-spinner1920 inswinger1920 outswinger1920 swinger1920 off-spinner1924 away swinger1925 Chinaman1929 overspinner1930 tweaker1938 riser1944 leg-cutter1949 seamer1952 leggy1954 off-cutter1955 squatter1955 flipper1959 lifter1959 cutter1960 beamer1961 loosener1962 doosra1999 1920 R. H. Lyttelton & E. R. Wilson in P. F. Warner Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) vii. 266 He bowled a swinger, an off break, and a fast ball, which went with his arm. 1948 Sporting Mirror 21 May 2/3 Heath bowls medium fast swingers and opens the bowling. 1966 E. R. Dexter Ted Dexter Declares ii. 21 They gave me a bit of bowling and I started with medium-pace swingers and off cutters. 1977 Listener 11 Aug. 182/4 Waving at a late swinger outside the off stump. d. Gunnery. A battery which is able to produce a sweeping fire. ΚΠ 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 252/1 The fourth battery is a ‘swinger’, and covers two units in each side of its own unit, making 5,000 yd. of front. e. A gramophone record with an eccentric spindle-hole. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > a sound recording > [noun] > record or disc > type of record pre-release1871 record album1904 re-release1907 ten-inch1908 twelve-incher1909 demonstration record1911 pressing1912 swinger1924 repressing1927 transcription1931 long-player1932 rush release1935 pop record1937 album1945 demonstration disc1947 pop disc1947 pop single1947 long-play1948 picture disc1948 781949 single1949 forty-five1950 demo disc1952 EP1952 shellac1954 top of the pops1956 gold disc1957 acetate1962 platinum disc1964 chartbuster1965 miss1965 cover1966 reissue1966 pirate label1968 rock record1968 thirty-three (and a third)1968 sampler1969 white-label1970 double album1971 dubplate1976 seven-inch1977 mini-album1980 joint1991 1924 Gramophone Jan. 155 Wavy-Tone Records or ‘swingers’. 1929 P. Wilson & G. W. Webb Mod. Gramophones xi. § 8. 252 Only too often one finds that the hole is slightly eccentric, and then we get what is known as a ‘swinger’. 1935 H. C. Bryson Gramophone Rec. vi. 147 The central hole has to be made perfectly true, for were it the least eccentric with the grooves, the records produced from it would be swingers. 1961 E. N. Bradley Records & Gramophone Equipm. i. 22 The most likely cause of wow is a swinger—a record whose spindle hole is not exactly central and so turns eccentrically as a result. 1981 Hi-Fi Answers Apr. 74/2 If you press the grooves off~centre relative to the centre hole it sounds terrible. A swinger that would just be okay at 33 will not do at 45. 3. a. Music. A musician who plays jazz with swing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > jazz musician > types of faker1903 swing man1903 honky-tonker1910 Chicagoan1924 stomper1925 Dixielander1927 modernist1932 swinger1934 ride man1935 all-star1937 swingster1937 hamfat1938 mouldy fig1945 traditionalist1949 trad1951 West Coaster1954 mainstreamer1961 soulster1961 New Thinger1964 1934 in B. Rust Jazz Records 1897–1942 (1969) 1516 (recording artists) The Six Swingers. 1958 K. Goodwin in P. Gammond Decca Bk. of Jazz xiii. 151 There are some real swingers on the coast, among them a young coloured pianist—Hampton Hawes. 1962 Sunday Times 10 June (Colour Suppl.) 3 Unexcelled as a technician and swinger, Baker is said by some to lack a musical heart and personality of his own. b. A lively person who keeps up with what is considered fashionable; one who is ‘with it’. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > following of fashion > follower of fashion fashion-monger1598 fashionist?1624 à la mode1651 modist1662 high-stepper1852 hipcat1937 stilyaga1955 swinger1965 trendy1968 voguie1973 trendoid1985 hipster1989 1965 P. Kael I lost it at Movies 19 I think in treating indiscriminateness as a value, she has become a real swinger. 1966 Economist 11 June 1240/3 No attempt has been made to attract the wilder London ‘swingers’ of Time-fame. 1967 H. Kemelman Nine Mile Walk (1968) 149 In the parlance of the undergraduate..Professor John Baxter Bowman..was a swinger, with a taste and interest in clothes not usually associated with the professoriat. 1972 J. Gores Dead Skip (1973) xiv. 96 The Dukum Inn..looked..like an aging swinger getting up in the morning with his teeth still in the water glass. 1977 M. French Women's Room i. iv. 12 I'd meet some middle-aged swinger with a deep tan and sideburns. c. A person who is sexually promiscuous; spec. one who advocates or engages in group sex or the swapping of sexual partners. Also, a homosexual. slang. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > promiscuity > person make-out1963 swinger1964 1964 W. & J. Breedlove Swap Clubs i. 37 We will on occasion utilize ‘swinger’ and ‘swinging’ to describe the advocate of sexual partner exchange and the exercising of that practice. 1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 vi. 147 I had a date last night with an eight-year-old, And she's a swinger just like me. 1972 G. Baxt Burning Sappho iii. 47 Flo pondered the invitation... ‘You sure you ain't no swinger?’ ‘I assure you my dear,’ said Lady Molly..‘I am not a womaniser.’ 1977 Time 4 July 38/2 Some operators have converted nudist colonies into ‘swinger camps’, the new rural retreats for the randy. †4. ? A large sword. (Cf. early Flem. swinghe.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun] > long or large sword longswordc1275 slaugh-sword1548 slaughter sword1569 katana1613 bum-bladea1640 swinger1673 whanger1826 espadon1846 two-hander1888 1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 42 The old Bishops..that ne'r..so much as knew how to set the Periwig and Galloshoes, much less the true timing and accenting of a Rapper, and double swinger. II. [ < swing n.² 12d + -er suffix¹ 1] 5. Each of the middle pair of horses in a team of six. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > team of > horse in middle of swingera1872 a1872 Trip to the West 137 (S. de Vere) Each wagon is usually drawn by three span of mules, of which the lighter and forward, are leaders, the next pair swingers, and the rear, or heaviest pair, wheelers. 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