swinging
English
Etymology 1
The sexual practice is so called after the custom in swing dancing of changing partners after each dance, unlike traditional ballroom dance styles where one has a single partner.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswɪŋɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Noun
swinging (countable and uncountable, plural swingings)
- The act or motion of that which swings.
- 1973, Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)
- Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism […]
- 1973, Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)
- An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners.
Translations
sexual practice
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Verb
swinging
- present participle of swing
Adjective
swinging (comparative more swinging or swinginger, superlative most swinging or swingingest)
- (informal) Fine, good, successful.
- The party was swinging.
- Sexually promiscuous.
- 2003 February 23, Bob Goldman, “Welcome To Splitsville”, in Florida Today:
- Hey, everyone fantasizes about what kind of swinging stud or studette they could be if they were only free from the shackles of domesticity.
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Adjective
swinging (comparative more swinging, superlative most swinging)
- Alternative form of swingeing
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
- “It is an eating fever then,” says the landlady; “for he hath devoured two swinging buttered toasts this morning for breakfast.”
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