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Definition of Swingy
1. Adjective. Characterized by a buoyant rhythm. "A tripping singing measure"
Similar to: Rhythmic, Rhythmical
Derivative terms: Swing, Swing
Definition of Swingy
1. Adjective. (informal) Having a swinging motion. ¹
2. Adjective. (informal) Characteristic of swing music. ¹
3. Adjective. (curling of ice) Allowing stones to curl more than usual. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swingy
1. marked by swinging [adj SWINGIER, SWINGIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swingy
Literary usage of Swingy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folio (1881)
"... the Greenwood Tree" showed considerable skill on the part of the composer,
and its swingy and intertwined themes were finely rendered by the club. ..."
2. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"Over the Bridge they Go " is not one of them, though it is a good swingy English
ballad withal. It is set to the words of the ubiquitous FE Weatherby, ..."
3. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"The swingy strains of a most enticing waltz form the groundwork of the movement.
It is one of the very few occasions where the waltz has been successfully ..."
4. Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern by Thomas Cooper De Leon (1890)
"They were a splendid set of animals; medium sized, sunburnt, muscular and wiry
as Arabs; and a long, swingy gait told of drill and endurance. ..."
5. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"The chief theme, swingy in style, comes after four bars of introduction, and is
repeated. Then comes the side-section, after the double-bar on p. 1187. ..."
6. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"The chief theme, swingy in style, comes after four bars of introduction, and is
repeated. Then comes the side-section, after the double-bar on p. 1187. ..."
7. My Lady Vaudeville and Her White Rats by George Fuller Golden (1909)
"He was thick-set and swingy. If he said, "Don't get chesty !" he would expand
his own chest several inches, to illustrate what he meant. ..."
8. Folio (1881)
"... the Greenwood Tree" showed considerable skill on the part of the composer,
and its swingy and intertwined themes were finely rendered by the club. ..."
9. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"Over the Bridge they Go " is not one of them, though it is a good swingy English
ballad withal. It is set to the words of the ubiquitous FE Weatherby, ..."
10. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"The swingy strains of a most enticing waltz form the groundwork of the movement.
It is one of the very few occasions where the waltz has been successfully ..."
11. Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern by Thomas Cooper De Leon (1890)
"They were a splendid set of animals; medium sized, sunburnt, muscular and wiry
as Arabs; and a long, swingy gait told of drill and endurance. ..."
12. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"The chief theme, swingy in style, comes after four bars of introduction, and is
repeated. Then comes the side-section, after the double-bar on p. 1187. ..."
13. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"The chief theme, swingy in style, comes after four bars of introduction, and is
repeated. Then comes the side-section, after the double-bar on p. 1187. ..."
14. My Lady Vaudeville and Her White Rats by George Fuller Golden (1909)
"He was thick-set and swingy. If he said, "Don't get chesty !" he would expand
his own chest several inches, to illustrate what he meant. ..."
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