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Definition of Swagging
1. swag [v] - See also: swag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swagging
Literary usage of Swagging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The High Alps of New Zealand by William Spotswood Green (1883)
"swagging.— Fifth and final camp. SOUTHERLAND was early astir and away up the
mountain-side with his gun to try and shoot some keas, which we could hear ..."
2. The High Alps of New Zealand, Or, A Trip to the Glaciers of the Antipodes by William Spotswood Green (1883)
"swagging.— Fifth and final camp. SOUTHERLAND was early astir and away up the
mountain-side with his gun to try and shoot some keas, which we could hear ..."
3. American Journal of Dental Science by American Society of Dental Surgeons (1889)
"the swagging process, is nothing more than a metallic ferrule, ... To imitate
these lateral lines by the swagging process seems practically impossible. ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A timber dray . . . had passed not long ago, with a great trunk swinging and
swagging on the road, and slurring the scallops of the horse track. ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... the reference is to the swagging or wabbling movement of the flesh of a fat
person ... swagging, soft, as boggy ground, and the softer parts of the body ..."
6. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... the reference is to the swagging or wabbling movement of the flesh of a fat
person ... swagging, soft, as boggy ground, and the softer parts of the body ..."
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