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swung, ppl. a.|swʌŋ|
Also 5 swonge(n.
[Pa. pple. of swing v.1]
†1. Cookery. Beaten up. Obs.
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 36 Take swongen eyrene and floure þer to. c1467Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 120 Grind raw pork and temper them with swonge egges.
2. Caused to oscillate; suspended; wielded with rotatory movement, etc.: see the verb.
1812Sir T. Lawrence in Williams Life & Corr. (1831) I. 318 A wee modest cart, with an old higgler in it, sitting on a swung seat. 1908L. Binyon Lond. Visions 14 Out of its slumber roused, intense, To the swung axe a demon calls.
3. swung dash, a curved dash ∼, used in dictionaries to stand for the headword of an entry or for a specified part of it.
In Oxford dictionaries first used in the first edition of The Little Oxford Dictionary (1930) but there called a tilde.
1951Conc. Oxf. Dict. p. iii, In this edition..the swung dash has been freely employed. 1975Amer. N. & Q. XIV. 60/1 ER, like most dictionaries, uses a swung dash to denote the entry word. |
