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▪ I. swapping, swopping, vbl. n.|ˈswɒpɪŋ|
[f. swap v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb swap.
†1. Striking, smiting; smiting or cutting off. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 1889 With swappyng of swerdys. Ibid. 5785 Swordis, with swapping, swaruyt on helmes. 1515Scottish Field 465 in Chetham Soc. Misc. (1856) II, There were swinging out of swordes, and swapping of heddes.
2. Exchanging of one thing for another; exchange, barter. slang or colloq.
1695J. Edwards Author. O. & N. Test. III. 231 Swapping or bartering of one thing for another. 1695Whether Parlt. be not dissolved by Death of Princess of Orange 21 The Blessings..which we had gotten..by swopping of Kings. a1739Jarvis Quix. iii. vii. (1742) I. 110 The laws of chivalry..do not extend to the swapping of one ass for another. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 23 After having grown old in the ways of the world..hypocrisy, ‘swapping’, trading, and evil speaking. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. iii, Dunsey Cass, whose taste for swopping and betting might turn out to be a sowing of something worse than wild oats. 1900W. R Moody Life D. L. Moody ii. 31 ‘Swapping’ is a Yankee weakness.
3. Finance. The action or process of making a swap (sense 3).
1957Times 19 Dec. 15/1 There was rather more outright buying of Dominion and Colonial stocks.., as well as a fair amount of swapping among Crown Colony loans. 1971Guardian 8 Sept. 1/8 Of this inflow, {pstlg}500 millions was used, indirectly, to support the dollar by ‘swapping forward’—Britain actually claimed only a small proportion of the foreign currency due to her, and took the rest in foreign IOUs.
▪ II. ˈswapping, swopping, ppl. a.
Also 5 schwoppinge.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. † Striking; † flapping; dial. swooping, pouncing.
c1450Cov. Myst., Innoc. (Shaks. Soc.) 182 With swappynge swerde now is he shorn The heed ryght fro the nekke! 1575Churchyard Chippes (1578) C iij, With swapping Besome in her hand. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. i. xi, Fowls flie by, and with their swapping wings Beat the inconstant aire. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 18 Chick, and duck, and gosling gone astray; All falling prizes to the swopping kite.
2. Very big, ‘thumping’, ‘whopping’. slang or colloq.
c1440Walsingham in Hone Year Bk. (1832) 90 In delvinge he myghte..find a schwoppinge mallarde imprisoned in the sinke or sewere. 1589Nashe Countercuffe Wks. 1904 I. 61 Pasquill met him..with..a swapping Ale-dagger at his back. 1624Middleton Game at Chess iv. ii, Ay, marry, sir, here's swapping sins indeed! c1662in Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 513 Hee was a swapping swapping mallard. a1843Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. IV. 425/1 A swopping mallard found which used to come and feed there. 1886Pall Mall G. 28 Oct. 6/1 We have seven professors of the jargon called law, and all with swopping salaries. |