swing
Pronunciation: /ˈswɪŋ/
The English word “swing” has 20 meanings listed here.
verb
- To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- To dance.
- To ride on a swing.
- To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
- To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- To move sideways in its trajectory.
- To fluctuate or change.
- To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- To turn in a different direction.
- To be sexually oriented.
- To engage in sexual activity with a man (specifically, with his penis)
Etymology
From Middle English swyngen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-West Germanic *swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *swenk-, *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.
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