Swinged vs Singed - What's the difference?
swinged | singed |
(swinge)
(nonstandard) (swing)
(obsolete) To singe.
(archaic) To move like a lash; to lash.
* Milton
(archaic) To strike hard.
* Shakespeare
* C. Dryden
* Aphra Behn (1640-89) The Feigned Courtesans . This edition: (The plays of) Aphra Behn. Oxford University press 2000. p.233. ISBN 0192834517
(singe)
To burn slightly.
* L'Estrange
To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
As verbs the difference between swinged and singed
is that swinged is (swinge) while singed is (singe).swinged
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(head)swinge
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(d)- (Spenser)
- Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
- I had swinged him soundly.
- And swinges his own vices in his son.
- Sir Feeble: Tis jelousy, the old worm that bites. [To Sir Cautious] Whom is it that you suspect.
- Sir Cautious: Alas I know not whom to suspect, I would I did; but if you discover him, I would swinge him.
Anagrams
* *singed
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(head)Anagrams
* * *singe
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(d)- I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.