swinge

• The following list makes no pretence to completeness; ‘martext’, ‘carrytale’, ‘pleaseman sneakcup’, ‘mumblenews’, ‘wantwit’, ‘lackbrain’, ‘lackbeard lacklove’, ‘ticklebrain’, ‘cutpurse’, ‘cutthroat’, ‘crackhemp breedbate’, ‘swinge-buckler’, ‘pickpurse’, ‘pickthank’, ‘picklock scarecrow’, ‘breakvow’, ‘breakpromise’, ‘makepeace’--this last and ‘telltruth’ (Fuller) being the only ones in the whole collection wherein reprobation or contempt is not implied. —  English Past and Present
• [27 Footnote 27: Henry IV._, V. iv Then they fell to talking of other things; and the honest old squire began to brag about his London days, and how he was once of Clement's Inn There was I, and little John Doit of Staffordshire, and black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele, a Cotswold man; you had not four such swinge-bucklers in all the Inns o' Court again." —  A Cotswold Village
• Four of these were such swinge-bucklers as were not to be found again in all the Inns o' Court, and we have it on the authority of Justice Shallow that Falstaff was a good backswordsman, and that before he had done growing he broke the head of Skogan at the Court gate. —  Obiter Dicta
• La det swinge in Gothenburg in 1985. —  esctoday.com | news
• That is the neetive misure of the Oirish bards, an 'is iminiutly adapted to rendher the Homeric swinge. —  The Lady of the Ice A Novel

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