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aswing en · ADV

Pronunciation

  • /əˈswɪŋ/

Etymology

From a- + swing.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a state of swinging.
    • The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing. 1921, Mary Grant Bruce, chapter 8, in Back to Billabong:
    • Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud. 1994, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8:
    • […] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing. 1945, Maurice Walsh, chapter 12, in Nine Strings to Your Bow, Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie:
    • […] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow, 1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 170:
    • And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still, 1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden”, in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, page 177: