Swing vs Swag - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between swing and swag

is that swing is to fluctuate or change while swag is to droop; to sag.

In transitive terms the difference between swing and swag

is that swing is in dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms while swag is to decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.

In lang=en terms the difference between swing and swag

is that swing is the genre of music associated with this dance style while swag is style; fashionable appearance or manner.

swing

English

(wikipedia swing)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) swingen, from (etyl) swingan, from (etyl) (compare Scottish Gaelic seang 'thin').

Verb

To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

The plant swung in the breeze.

* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 12

With one accord the tribe swung rapidly toward the frightened cries, and there found Terkoz holding an old female by the hair and beating her unmercifully with his great hands.

To dance.

To ride on a swing.

The children laughed as they swung .

To participate in the lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.

To hang from the gallows.

(intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.

To fluctuate or change.

It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.

To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.

He swung his sword as hard as he could.

To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.

To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.

If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.

(music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.

(cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.

(transitive, and, intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.

In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.

"to swing''' one's partner", or simply "to '''swing "

(engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.

The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.

(carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.

(nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.

A ship swings with the tide.

Derived terms

* come out swinging

Troponyms

*(to rotate about an off-centre fixed point) pivot, swivel

Etymology 2

From the above verb.

Noun

(en noun)

The manner in which something is swung.

A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.

A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.

* , chapter=12

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.}}

A dance style.

(music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.

The amount of change towards or away from something.

# (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.

The polls showed a wide swing to Labour.

(cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.

The diameter that a lathe can cut.

In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.

A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.

Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.

(obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.

* (John Dryden)

Take thy swing .

* Burke

To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle to the full swing of his genius.

Quotations

* 1937 June 11, Judy Garland, “All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm”, A day at the races , Sam Wood (director), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer *: All God’s chillun got rhythm. All God's chillun got swing . *: Maybe haven't got money, maybe haven't got shoes. *: All God’s chillun got rhythm for to [sic. ] push away their blues.

Derived terms

* swing of things

Anagrams

* wings English ergative verbs English irregular verbs ----

swag

English

Etymology 1

Probably from (etyl)

Verb

(swagg)

(intransitive, and, transitive) To sway; to cause to sway.

To droop; to sag.

* Palsgrave

I swag' as a fat person's belly ' swaggeth as he goeth.

To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 29, author=Cathy Horyn, title=In Paris, a Nod to Old Masters, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Dior wouldn’t be Dior without the swagged ball gown

Noun

(en noun)

A loop of draped fabric.

* 2005 , , Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:

He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.

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.

Derived terms

* (l)

Etymology 2

(swagger).

Noun

(-)

(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!”

Etymology 3

From British thieves? slang.

Noun

(en noun)

(countable) The booty of a burglar or thief; a boodle.

* 1838 , :

“It?s all arranged about bringing off the swag , is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘ […] They tell me there was a recognized swag market down here.’}}

* 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.

* 2011 , Mark Henry, Battle of the Network Zombies

“Make sure to take some swag on your way out!” I called.
He stooped a bit in mid-trot and snatched a small gold bag out of the basket at the door. The contents were mostly shit, a few drink tickets to the Well of Souls, VIP status at Convent, that sort of thing.

(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 in to an integral backpack.

(countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).

* 2010 August 31, " Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener]", [[w:The New Zealand Herald, The New Zealand Herald] :

New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women?s hockey World Cup match.

Derived terms

* swaggie * swagman

Verb

(Australia) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).

* 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 , , 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.

Derived terms

* swag it

Etymology 4

Noun

(en noun)

; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.

I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.