different between paying vs swedge

English

Etymology

pay +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?.??/
• Rhymes: -e???
• Hyphenation: pay?ing

Verb

paying

1. present participle of pay

Derived terms

• fare-paying

Noun

paying (plural payings)

1. payment
   • 1912, Philip H. Wicksteed, The Commonsense of Political Economy

     It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.

Anagrams

• pygian

English

Etymology

Malapropism of English swage (“a groove, moulding; moulding tool”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Why the sense about leaving a restaurant without paying?”)

Pronunciation

Noun

swedge (countable and uncountable, plural swedges)

1. A tool (originally a bevelled chisel) for making grooves in horseshoes.
2. (Scotland, slang, uncountable) The drug MDMA.

Verb

swedge (third-person singular simple present swedges, present participle swedging, simple past and past participle swedged)

1. To shape metal using a hammer or other force.
2. (colloquial) To leave (a restaurant etc.) without paying.
3. To fold under or round an object.

Anagrams

• Wedges, wedges