swungadj.
/swʌŋ/, U.S. /swəŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > general preparation processes > [adjective] > whipped
swungc1467
cast1597
whipped1673
milled1766
beatc1817
creamed1892
switched1909
c1467 Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 120 Grind raw pork and temper them with swonge egges.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 36 Take swongen eyrene and floure þer to.
2. Caused to oscillate; suspended; wielded with rotatory movement, etc.: see the verb.
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective]
yhongeOE
uphunga1400
suspensec1440
hanging1483
uphanged1555
hung1663
suspended1796
swung1812
suspensive1827
overhung1868
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > [adjective] > brandished or flourished
brandished1582
swung1908
1812 Sir T. Lawrence in Williams Life & Corr. (1831) I. 318 A wee modest cart, with an old higgler in it, sitting on a swung seat.
1908 L. Binyon London Visions 14 Out of its slumber roused, intense, To the swung axe a demon calls.
3. swung dash n. a curved dash ∼, used in dictionaries to stand for the headword of an entry or for a specified part of it. In Oxford dictionaries first used in the first edition of The Little Oxford Dictionary (1930) but there called a tilde.
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society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > dash
spita1425
dash1733
swung dash1951
1951 Conc. Oxf. Dict. p. iii In this edition..the swung dash has been freely employed.
1975 Amer. Notes & Queries 14 60/1 ER, like most dictionaries, uses a swung dash to denote the entry word.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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