Definitions for swingeing

swingeing swinge·ing

Spelling: [swin-jing]
IPA: /ˈswɪn dʒɪŋ/

Swingeing is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in swingeing (eggiinnsw).

Definitions for swingeing

adjective

  1. enormous; thumping.
  2. Slang. swinging (def 3).

verb (used with object)

  1. to thrash; punish.
  2. to singe.

Origin of swingeing

First recorded in 1560-70; swinge1 + -ing2

Examples for swingeing

I gave him a swingeing box on the ear, which sent him to the police, who dismissed his complaint.

For they live in a swingeing wine-press, fifty steps up to it.

I 'd have 'coined my blood,' as the fellow says in the play, and written a swingeing check with red ink!

The jolly yeoman cut a rasher of bacon, which Cicely soon broiled, and her father added a swingeing tankard of his best ale.

He would have liked to leave the banqueting hall at once with a swingeing curse.

A swingeing cold in the head thro' running about on the night of the raid.

Nor were his thoughts in line with the swingeing sentences he had just been writing in the exercise-book.

We saw a swingeing bunch of grapes that are gathered and squeezed in that country, brought in by them.

O that I could see a swingeing mullet extended on a swingeing dish!

A swingeing St. Christopher, fording a brook with a child on his shoulders, cannot fail of attracting attention.

Word Value for swingeing
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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