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▪ I. swinging, vbl. n.|ˈswɪŋɪŋ|
[f. swing v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of swing v.1
†1. Beating, scourging. Obs.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 57 We shulen leden al þis leinten on festing..on smerte swinginge & on oðre swiche gode dedes. a1340Hampole Psalter xxxi. 13 Eftere þe bridel comes þe swyngynge for to teme him þat is wilde.
2. Flourishing, waving about.
c1400Destr. Troy 12526 Hym-seluyn in the sea sonkyn belyue, Swalprit & swam with swyngyng of armys. 1897[see swinger3 1].
3. a. (a) Movement to and fro, as of a suspended body; oscillation, swaying, etc.: see the verb.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. xxxiii. 48 It will strike what Hour of the Day or Night it is, and then leave off striking, and swinging also. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 26 June, I have suffered more from jolting and swinging than ever I felt in the whole course of my life, although the carriage is remarkably..well hung. 1771Luckombe Hist. Print. 331 A low man cannot pull the handle of the Bar at so great a force..as a tall man; but will require the swinging of his whole body backwards to add force to the Pull. 1816Shelley Mont Blanc ii, Thy giant brood of pines..in whose devotion The chainless winds still come..their mighty swinging To hear. 1849James Woodman ix, No sound was heard, except the swinging of the great bell. 1867A. J. Wilson Vashti xxxiii, The peculiar, free, childish swinging of the left arm.
(b) See swing v.1 6 (b).
1793Medical Spectator II. No. 39. 242 A few days after this, came on the annual custom of swinging. Ibid. 246 Some who have got marks of the wounds made on their backs by the swinging-hooks. 1857Lady Canning in Hare Story Two Noble Lives (1893) II. 284 Dr. Duff says the swinging festival went off very mildly this year.
b. The sport of riding in a swing. Also attrib.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 698 These swinging-games had origin all from hence [sc. Italy]. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 93 Their husbands are very glad to give them this kind of sport, and sometimes help them in their swinging. 1838[see swing v.1 7 b].
4. slang or colloq. Hanging. Also attrib.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Columpio, swinging in a halter. 1879Browning Ned Bratts 95, I think he pulled a face, next Sessions' swinging-time! 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. ii. xi, They [sc. gentlemen of fortune] risk swinging.
5. Indulgence in sexual promiscuity; spec. engaging in group sex or the exchanging of sexual partners. slang.
1964[see swinger3 3 c]. 1967W. & J. Breedlove Swinging Set v. 65 The act of prostitution is separate from ‘swinging’. 1970E. M. Brecher Sex Researchers ix. 250 What happened during the 1960's was that group sex in public—swinging—emerged from the brothels and became an established though minor feature of American urban and suburban life. 1973New Society 24 May 437/1 ‘Swinging’ is extra-marital sex by both spouses, at the same time and usually in the same place.
▪ II. ˈswinging, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That swings.
1. a. Moving to and fro as or like a suspended body; oscillating; swaying.
a1560T. Phaer æneid x. (1562) Dd iv b, He swam with swinging sides. 1716Gay Trivia i. 157 But when the swinging signs your ears offend With creaking noise, then rainy floods impend. 1803Scott Cadyow Castle xi, The drawbridge falls—..Clatters each plank and swinging chain. 1815Shelley Alastor 563 A pine..stretched athwart the vacancy Its swinging boughs. 1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. § 662 Swinging cribs and cradles are now justly exploded. 1848Lytton K. Arthur v. xcix, With lifted cross and swinging censer. 1900Conan Doyle Green Flag, etc. 127 He punched the swinging ball and worked with the dumb-bells.
fig.1915J. Kelman Salted with Fire xii. 180 The devious and swinging balance of power with which diplomacy has hitherto concerned itself.
b. Of a blow: Characterized or accompanied by a swing of the arm, etc.
1850Holtzapffel Turning III. 1190 The toothed saws for stone are used with a swinging stroke. 1898‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner xxx. 320 Von Holzen ran at him with his arm outstretched for a swinging stab. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail i. vi, He saw his opening and let out with a swinging pivot blow.
2. Turning or adapted to turn freely in either direction upon a fixed axis or centre, as a gate or door, a hinged piece of mechanism, etc.; in technical use = swing- (see also 4).
1730Inv. D. Bond's Goods (1732) 34 A square Walnut⁓tree Table and Swinging Glass. 1868Rep. to Govt. U.S. Munitions War 51 Mr. Joslyn's rifle, calibre 0·500, has a swinging breech-piece of a peculiar pattern. 1885Mabel Collins Prettiest Woman x, He opened the swinging door for her. 1879Man. Artill. Exerc. 71 The butt of the swinging derrick is made fast to the upright spar. 1904Windsor Mag. Jan. 300/2 The girl turned about on the swinging stool where she sat.
3. a. Applied to a steady vigorous rhythmical onward movement (pace, step, etc.) accompanied, or such as is commonly accompanied, by a swaying from side to side; hence used of a rhythm in verse or music suggesting such a movement.
1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxii, Onward they came at a long swinging trot. 1881Fenn Off to Wilds viii, The boy pressed his horse's sides, and went off at a swinging canter. 1884J. G. Rogers in Congregationalist Feb. 104 These swinging congregational melodies. 1887Westm. Rev. June 380 A long swinging dactylic measure in rhyming couplets. 1902J. Buchan Watcher by Threshold 76, I heard a long swinging step outside.
b. Mus. Applied to a musician who plays jazz with swing; also, to the music itself. Cf. swing n.2 10 b.
1955in A. J. McCarthy Jazzbook 1955 31 It has been satisfying to witness the renewed success within the past two years of Count Basie's orchestra, as the swinging spearhead of coloured jazz. 1956B. Holiday Lady sings Blues (1973) xxiii. 189 They were the swingingest cats I ever heard. 1958K. Goodwin in P. Gammond Decca Bk. of Jazz xiii. 153 Mel Lewis—..easily the most swinging drummer ever to work with the Kenton band.
c. Uninhibited, ignoring conventions; lively and up to date: applied to persons, places (swinging London), etc., and spec. to the 1960s (swinging Sixties). Also, as a general term of approval: fine, splendid, ‘great’ (temporarily contrasted with dodgy). colloq.
1958Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxx. 47 Swingin', the highest term of approval. May be applied to anything a jazzman likes, or any person. 1959Manch. Guardian 25 June 8/7 [She] informed him that she wants a large place ‘in a swinging part of town’..so he is looking around in Chelsea and Knightsbridge. 1962J. Baldwin Another Country (1963) ii. iii. 299 ‘You feeling all right?’.. ‘He's going to feel just swinging.’ 1964N. Vaughan in T.V. World 24 Sept. 48 When people ask me how I feel about the months ahead, I tell them: ‘Sometimes it's a bit dodgy, but most of the time it's swinging!’ 1965Weekend Telegraph 16 Apr. 12/2 Diana Vreeland..editor of Vogue..has said simply ‘London is the most swinging city in the world at the moment’. 1966Time 15 Apr. 11/3, I know this world, this swinging London... But I wouldn't describe myself as a swinger. 1967Listener 19 Jan. 107/1 He does not fit into the Zeitgeist of the swinging 'sixties. 1967F. Mullally Prizewinner iii. 41 The swinging London Percy had read so much about. 1971H. Wilson Labour Govt. xxxvii. 766 The press publicized what they called the new swinging style of the Downing Street receptions. 1976P. Cave High Flying Birds iii. 25 Young people from all over the world—draft-evading Americans, poker-faced Germans, swinging Swedes and the comic-clown Dutch. 1980M. Sellers Leonardo & Others x. 56 Zuleika lived life to the full. She was a product of the swinging sixties. 1982S. Brett Murder Unprompted v. 51 The British film industry..was committed to making zany films about Swinging London.
d. Of or pertaining to one who engages in promiscuous sexual activity (esp. group sex or the swapping of sexual partners). slang.
1964W. & J. Breedlove Swap Clubs ii. 43 A ‘swinging couple’. 1978Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Apr. 6/2 ‘Swinging couples’ are no longer addicted to square dancing but to the less innocuous pastime of wife-swapping.
4. Special collocations or combinations: swinging-bar = swing-bar (swing- 2); swinging-boom Naut., a boom swung or suspended over the ship's side, used to stretch the foot of a lower studding-sail, and (when at anchor) for a boat to ride by; swinging-bridge, (a) see quot. 1892; (b) = swing-bridge (swing- 2); swinging-tree dial. = swingletree.
1859Jephson Brittany xi. 188 To the end of the pole is attached a *swinging-bar and a pair of traces for a leader.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xi, Bracing the yards forward so that the *swinging-boom nearly touched the sprit-sail yard.
1708in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (Boston Registry Dept.) (1883) VIII. 52 The way leading from Madam Butlers Corner..to the *Swinging Bridg. 1892Philips Fortification 244 Flying or Swinging Bridges.—A flying bridge is one in which the action of the current is made to move a boat, or raft of two piers, across a stream, by acting obliquely against its side. 1908Westm. Gaz. 23 Nov. 5/3 The city of Cleveland, Ohio,..desired to convert the viaduct-bridge over the Cuyahoga River into a swinging-bridge.
Hence ˈswingingly adv., with swinging movement.
1882‘Annie Thomas’ Allerton Towers II. vi. 105 A long, lithe, lean-headed mare,..with action so swingingly easy..that her rider never swerves by a hair's-breadth in the saddle. 1891Murray's Mag. X. 662 To strut swingingly up the Cathedral to the Dean's pew.
▸ swinging dick n. slang a man; spec. (more fully big swinging dick) a successful, arrogant, ambitious, or aggressively bold man (also occas. used of a woman); cf. Dick n.1 3b.
1980Washington Post 24 Feb. b2/1 The young troopers were ‘*every swinging dick’. 1989M. Lewis Liar's Poker iii. 46 If he could make millions of dollars come out of those phones, he became that most revered of all species: a Big Swinging Dick. 1992Independent (Nexis) 30 July 10 The ‘big swinging dicks’ who strut around the City charging seven-figure fees. 1994L. Davies Nest of Vipers (1995) 91 He dangled her trading limit before her, willing her to show him what a big swinging dick she was by using it to the full. 2003Esquire July 90/1 Myth, genius, all that, but still just another swinging dick—a wealthy man, growing old alone.
▪ III. swinging, -ly
var. swingeing, -ly. |