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单词 swift-winged
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swift-wingedadj.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswift-winged.
Having swift wings, flying swiftly, rapid in flight (literal and figurative).
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective]
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swifta1050
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hastivea1325
hastyc1330
ingnel1340
swiftyc1380
speedfula1387
fasta1400
swippingc1420
speedy1487
fleet1528
tite?a1540
scudding1545
flighty1552
suddenly1556
flight1581
feathered1587
Pegasean1590
wing-footed1591
swift-winged?1592
thought-swift-flying1595
wind-winged?1596
swallow-winged1597
Pegasarian1607
skelping1607
rapid1608
night-swifta1616
celerious1632
clipping1635
perniciousa1656
volatile1655
quick-foot1658
meteorous1667
windy1697
high-flying1710
fleet-footed1726
aliped1727
wickc1760
velocious1775
flight-performing1785
fast-going1800
fast-moving1802
meteor1803
wight-wapping1830
fleety1841
speeding1847
swiftening1848
two-forty1855
fire-swift1865
pennate1870
spinning1882
percursory1884
zippy1889
meteoric1895
pacy1906
presto1952
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [adjective] > flying (as) with wings > flying swiftly
swift-winged?1592
fleet-winged1594
clipping1635
tachypetous1860
?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda ii. ii. 33 Thou great commander of the swift wingd winds.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 15 Yet are these Feete..Swift-winged with desire to get a Graue. View more context for this quotation
1619 A. Newman Pleasures Vision B ij When youthfull Spleene Had ne're the wiles..of Pleasure seene, Nor dreampt, how pretious is swift-winged Time.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 566 The hawk; Apollo's swift-wing'd messenger.
1786 R. Burns Cotter's Sat. Night v, in Poems & Songs (1968) I. 147 The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnotic'd, fleet.
1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 696 The first family of the Moths is the Sphingidæ, a group which contains a great number of swift-winged insects.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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