different between swingling vs swinging

English

Verb

swingling

1. present participle of swingle

Noun

swingling (plural swinglings)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act or process of beating flax in order to extract the fibres.
   • 1787, The American Museum, Or Universal Magazine

     […] then lay over these sticks, either a clean old blanket, or, if that be not at hand, a quantity of the swinglings of flax […]

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.