SWINGEING
swingeing
(adjective) severe; punishingly bad; “swingeing taxation”; “swingeing damages awarded by the judge”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
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