Winged vs Swinged - What's the difference?
winged | swinged |
Having wings.
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(in combination) having wings of a specified kind
(in combination) having the specified number of wings
(wing)
(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
As an adjective winged
is (poetic).As a verb swinged is
(swinge).winged
English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
*Adjective
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- weak-winged
- The six-winged Seraphim are the angels closest to God.
Etymology 2
See (wing) (verb)Verb
(head)Anagrams
*swinged
English
Verb
(head)swinge
English
Verb
(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.