swung, ppl. a.
(swʌŋ)
Also 5 swonge(n.
[Pa. pple. of swing v.1]
† 1. Cookery. Beaten up. Obs.
| c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 36 Take swongen eyrene and floure þer to. c 1467 Noble Bk. Cookry (1882) 120 Grind raw pork and temper them with swonge egges. |
2. Caused to oscillate; suspended; wielded with rotatory movement, etc.: see the verb.
| 1812 Sir T. Lawrence in Williams Life & Corr. (1831) I. 318 A wee modest cart, with an old higgler in it, sitting on a swung seat. 1908 L. Binyon Lond. Visions 14 Out of its slumber roused, intense, To the swung axe a demon calls. |
3. swung dash, a curved dash ∼, used in dictionaries to stand for the headword of an entry or for a specified part of it.
In Oxford dictionaries first used in the first edition of The Little Oxford Dictionary (1930) but there called a tilde.
| 1951 Conc. Oxf. Dict. p. iii, In this edition..the swung dash has been freely employed. 1975 Amer. N. & Q. XIV. 60/1 ER, like most dictionaries, uses a swung dash to denote the entry word. |