different between swinge vs swinged

English

Etymology

From Middle English swenge (“to strike”), from Old English swen?an (“to dash, strike; to cause to swing”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

swinge (third-person singular simple present swinges, present participle swinging or swingeing, simple past swinged or swonge, past participle swinged or swongen) (forms with o are obsolete)

1. (obsolete) To singe.
2. (archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
3. (archaic) To strike hard.
   • 1679, Aphra Behn, The Feigned Courtesans, in (The plays of) Aphra Behn, Oxford University press 2000, p.233. ?ISBN

     Sir Feeble: Tis jelousy, the old worm that bites. [To Sir Cautious] Whom is it that you suspect.

     Sir Cautious: Alas I know not whom to suspect, I would I did; but if you discover him, I would swinge him.

4. (obsolete) To chastise; to beat.
   • a. 1575, unknown author, The marriage of Wit and Wisdom

     O, the passion of God, so I shall be swinged.

     So, my bones shall be banged?

     The porridge pot is stolen? what, Lob, say,

     Come away, and be hanged?

Related terms

• swingeing

Noun

swinge (plural swinges)

1. (archaic) A swinging blow.
2. (obsolete) Power; sway; influence.

Anagrams

• Winges, sewing, winges

English

Etymology 1

Verb

swinged

1. simple past tense and past participle of swinge

Etymology 2

Verb

swinged

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of swing

Anagrams

• sweding, swindge

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English sengen, from Old English sen?an, from Proto-West Germanic *sangijan.

Verb

swinged

1. singed

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN