aswing
/əˈswɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a state of swinging.
Example Sentences
- "And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,"
- "[…] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow,"
- "The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing."
- "[…] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing."
- "Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud."
Etymology
From a- + swing.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a