SWINGEING

swingeing

(adjective) severe; punishingly bad; “swingeing taxation”; “swingeing damages awarded by the judge”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

swingeing (comparative more swingeing, superlative most swingeing)

(chiefly, Britain) Huge, immense.

Heavy, powerful, scathing.

Synonyms

• whopping

Verb

swingeing

(archaic) present participle of swinge.

Source: Wiktionary

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Swinge"ing, a.

Definition: Huge; very large. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot. Byron.

– Swinge"ing*ly, adv. Dryden.

SWINGE

Swinge (swînj), v. & n.

Definition: See Singe. [Obs.] Spenser.

Swinge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Swinged (swînjd); p. pr. & vb. n. Swingeing (swînj"îng).] Etym: [OE. swengen, AS. swengan to shake, causative of swingan. See Swing.]

1. To beat soundly; to whip; to chastise; to punish. I had swinged him soundly. Shak. And swinges his own vices in his son. C. Dryden.

2. To move as a lash; to lash. [Obs.] Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. Milton.

Swinge, n.

1. The sweep of anything in motion; a swinging blow; a swing. [Obs.] Waller.

2. Power; sway; influence. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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