different between swag vs tent
swag
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /swæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”).
Verb
swag (third-person singular simple present swags, present participle swagging, simple past and past participle swagged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) sway.
- Synonyms: sway, lurch
- (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
- 1530, John Palsgrave, L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse
- I swagge as a fatte persos belly swaggeth as he goth.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
- (transitive) To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
- 1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting (page 19)
- Hooks come with screws for use in plaster or wood and toggles for use in wallboard. One hook should be sufficient to swag a lamp from a ceiling outlet.
- 1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting (page 19)
Noun
swag (plural swags)
- (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:
- He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:
- A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
- 1902, D. G. Simmons, "The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases", The American Practitioner and News, 34: 182.
- Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag the water from the well in question would become muddy […] After the water in the swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.
- 1902, D. G. Simmons, "The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases", The American Practitioner and News, 34: 182.
Derived terms
- swagger
Etymology 2
Clipping of swagger. A common pseudo-etymology is the derivation as acronym for “secretly we are gay”, or other unlikely phrases.
Noun
swag (uncountable)
- (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
- 2009, Mark Anthony Archer, Exile, page 119
- Now this dude got swag, and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!
- 2009, Mark Anthony Archer, Exile, page 119
Derived terms
- swag it out
Etymology 3
From 18th c. British thieves' slang.
Noun
swag (plural swags)
- (obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. [18th c.]
- Synonym: stock
- (thieves' cant, uncountable) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle. [18th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:booty
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter 19:
- “It?s all arranged about bringing off the swag, is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded.
- 1971 November 22, Frank E. Emerson, “They Can Get It For You BETTER Than Wholesale”, New York Magazine, page 38
- He was on his way to call on other dealers to check out their swag and to see if he could trade away some of his leftover odds and ends.
- (uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions. [late 20th c.]
- (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
- (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
- 2010 August 31, "Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener", The New Zealand Herald:
- New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women?s hockey World Cup match.
- 2010 August 31, "Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener", The New Zealand Herald:
Derived terms
- swagful, swagless
- (shop): rum swag, swag barrow
- (stolen goods): swag bag, swag chovey bloke, swagsman (“fence”)
- (itinerant's belongings): swagman
Verb
swag (third-person singular simple present swags, present participle swagging, simple past and past participle swagged)
- (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket). [From 1850s.]
- 1880, James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia, page 259,
- He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.
- 1976, Pembroke Arts Club, The Anglo-Welsh Review, page 158,
- That such a man was swagging in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation.
- 2006, Inga Clendinnen, The History Question: Who Owns the Past?, Quarterly Essay, Issue 23, page 3,
- The plot is straightforward. A swagman is settling down by a billabong after a hard day?s swagging.
- 2011, Penelope Debelle, Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston QC, page 21,
- Over the Christmas of 1939, just three months after Britain and Australia had declared war on Germany, they went swagging together for a week and slept out under the stars in the Adelaide Hills, talking, walking and reading.
- 1880, James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia, page 259,
- To transport stolen goods.
Derived terms
- swaggie
- swagman
- swag it
Translations
Etymology 4
Noun
swag (plural swags)
- Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
- I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- AWGs, GWAS, WAGs, wags
Old Frisian
Etymology
From a word referring to the fence around a pasture; cf. Old Norse sveigr (“supple branch, headkerchief”), ultimately from a root meaning to bend or twist.
Noun
sw?g f
- pasture
Descendants
- Dutch: Zwaag
- Frisian: sweach, swaech
Further reading
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “zwaag”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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tent
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?nt, IPA(key): /t?nt/
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /t?nt/
- Homophone: tint
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /t?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
- Homophone: tint (with pin-pen merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”). Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
- (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
- (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
- (intransitive) To go camping.
- We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.
- (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
- (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
- The sheet tented over his midsection.
Translations
See also
- camp
- lean-to
- lodge
- pavilion, pavillion
- pitch
- tarp
Etymology 2
From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”).
Verb
tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
- (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
- (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Lydgate to this entry?)
- (archaic) Intention; design.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Etymology 3
From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tent?re (“to probe, test”), alteration of tempt?re (“to test, probe, tempt”).
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
- (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.
Verb
tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
- (medicine, sometimes figuratively) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
- to tent a wound
Etymology 4
From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tinctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge, tint, tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.
Noun
tent (plural tents)
- (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.
See also
- claret, hock, sack
Anagrams
- Nett, nett
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch tente, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?nt/
- Hyphenation: tent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
tent m (plural tenten, diminutive tentje n)
- tent (for camping, special occasions, etc.)
- pavillion
- Synonym: paviljoen
- (informal, Dutch, often in compounds) a building, especially one used for commercial purposes
- Synonym: keet
Derived terms
- circustent
- hottentottententententoonstelling
- kermistent
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
tent
- past participle of tenne
Southern Kam
Adjective
tent
- short
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