swinging
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈswɪŋɪŋ/
swinging
- The act or motion of that which swings.
- 1973, Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)
- Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism […]
- 1973, Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)
- An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners.
- French: échangisme
- German: Swingen
- Italian: scambismo
- Portuguese: swing
- Russian: свинг
- Spanish: intercambio de pareja
- present participle of swing#English|swing
swinging
- (informal) Fine, good, successful.
- The party was swinging.
- Alternative form of swingeing#English|swingeing
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (
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- “It is an eating fever then,” says the landlady; “for he hath devoured two swinging buttered toasts this morning for breakfast.”
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