swinging
/ˈswɪŋɪŋ/ adjective B1- That swings
- Fine, good, successful. · The party was swinging.
- Sexually promiscuous.
Comparative swinginger · Superlative swingingest
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The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the end of its tail.
His costume was a peculiar mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand.
Musgrave still stood with a very pale face, swinging his lantern and peering down into the hole.
The silver heart left the office, swinging and banging itself independently against the office furniture as it indignantly departed.
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