swinger

See also: Swinger

English

Etymology 1

swing +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɪŋə(ɹ)/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋə(ɹ)

Noun

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swings.
   • 2009, Peter Handke, Krishna Winston, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, page 438:

     And now that swing appears on a certain playground in the dusk, still swinging without the swinger, who has disappeared […]

2. A person who practices swinging (sex with different partners).
3. A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick two runners to finish in any of the places in any order.
4. A performer of swing music or whose style is influenced by swing.
5. (politics, informal) A swing voter.
   • 2019 May 16, Katharine Murphy, “Campaign catchup 2019: close race sparks pre-election jitters”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Shorten went to Blacktown to try and summon the spirit of Gough Whitlam to persuade the swingers it was time for a change of government. Shorten said vote one Labor, for the future.

6. A swing ride.

Derived terms

• in-swinger
• jim-swinger
• lead swinger
• out-swinger

 

Translations

person who practices swinging

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 交換配偶的人／交换配偶的人 (jiāohuàn pèi'ǒu de rén)

• Finnish: pintaliitäjä
• French: échangiste (fr) m or f
• German: Swinger (de) m, Swingerin (de) f
• Japanese: スインガー (suingā)
• Russian: сви́нгер (ru) m (svínger)
• Swedish: swinger c

Etymology 2

swinge +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

swinger (plural swingers)

1. One who swinges.
2. (obsolete, slang) Anything very large, forcible, or astonishing.
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “Twelfth Night”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, →OCLC:

     Add sugar, nutmeg, and ginger,
     With store of ale too;
     And thus ye must do
     To make the wassail a swinger

     The spelling has been modernized.

Anagrams

• Wingers, wingers

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English swinger. Attested since 1971.

Noun

swinger c

1. a swinger (person who practices swinging)

Declension

Declension of swinger
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	swinger	swingern	swingers	swingersarna
Genitive	swingers	swingerns	swingers	swingersarnas

Derived terms

• swingerklubb

Related terms

• swinging

References

• swinger in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• swinger in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)