different between swiggle vs swingle

English

Verb

swiggle (third-person singular simple present swiggles, present participle swiggling, simple past and past participle swiggled)

1. (rare) to wriggle, wiggle or squirm
2. (rare) to drink to excess

References

[1] (fish swiggling their tails), [2] (I swiggled my finger around), [3] (she swiggled around in her chair), [4] (swiggling beer), [5] (rum-swiggling), [6] (swiggling beer, whisky and gin)

Anagrams

• wiggles

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw??.?l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Etymology 1

From Middle English swingelen, from the noun (see below). Related to Middle Dutch swingelen, swengelen.

Verb

swingle (third-person singular simple present swingles, present participle swingling, simple past and past participle swingled)

1. (transitive) To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.
   • 1858, John Harland (editor), The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster

     The first operation in dressing flax is to swingle or beat it, in order to detach it from the harle or skimps.

2. (transitive) To beat off the tops of (weeds) without pulling up the roots.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Forby to this entry?)

Etymology 2

From Middle English swingel, from Old English swingel, swingelle (“whip, scourge”), equivalent to swing +? -le. Related to Middle Dutch swingel, swengel, Dutch zwingel, zwengel. Doublet of swingel.

Noun

swingle (plural swingles)

1. An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch.

Etymology 3

From swing +? -le (frequentative suffix).

Verb

swingle (third-person singular simple present swingles, present participle swingling, simple past and past participle swingled)

1. To dangle; to wave hanging.
2. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) To swing for pleasure.

Anagrams

• slewing, swingel