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flailing

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?fle?l??/

Verb

flailing

  1. present participle of flail

Noun

flailing (plural flailings)

  1. A flailing action or motion.
    The drowning man's flailings soon attracted the lifeguard's attention.

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swinging

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

swinging (countable and uncountable, plural swingings)

  1. The act or motion of that which swings.
    • 1973, Socialist Review (volume 8, page 331)
      Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism […]
  2. An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners.

Translations

Verb

swinging

  1. present participle of swing

Adjective

swinging (comparative more swinging, superlative most swinging)

  1. (informal) Fine, good, successful.
  2. Alternative form of swingeing
    • “It is an eating fever then,” says the landlady; “for he hath devoured two swinging buttered toasts this morning for breakfast.”
  3. Sexually promiscuous.

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