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aswing

English

Etymology

a- +? swing

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??sw??/
  • Rhymes: -??

Adverb

aswing (not comparable)

  1. In a state of swinging.
    • 1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden” in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, p. 177,[1]
      And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms
      Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,
    • 1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 170,[2]
      [] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow,
    • 1921, Mary Grant Bruce, Back to Billabong, Chapter 8,[3]
      The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.
    • 1945, Maurice Walsh, Nine Strings to Your Bow, Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie, Chapter 12,[4]
      [] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing.
    • 1994, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Debtford, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8,[5]
      Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud.

Anagrams

  • saw gin, sawing, wigans

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awwing

English

Verb

awwing

  1. present participle of aww

Anagrams

  • wawing

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