swingel

• IPA^(key): /ˈswɪŋ(ɡ)əl/, /ˈswɪnd͡ʒəl/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋəl, -ɪŋɡəl, -ɪndʒəl

swingel (plural swingels)

1. Alternative form of swingle.

• “swingel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Swingle, slewing, swingle

From Proto-West Germanic *swingillju, from Proto-Germanic *swingiljō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈswin.jel/, [ˈswin.d͡ʒel]

swinġel f

1. a stripe, stroke, or lash
2. a scourging, whipping, or flogging
3. a scourge, rod, or whip
4. (figurative) chastisement, affliction

Strong ō-stem:

• fliġel
• ġeswip

• swingan
• swingelle
• *swingla
  • windswingla

• Middle English: swingel
  • English: swingel, swingle
  • Scots: swingill, swyngill