1540s, "one who or that which swings," agent noun from swing (v.). Also (now obsolete) "anything big or great" (1580s). Meaning "person who is sexually promiscuous" is from 1964. Old English swingere (n.) meant "one who strikes, scourger."
雙語例句
1. Dana was a real swinger in her younger years.
達娜在她年輕的時候是一個完全放蕩不羈的人.
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2. That guy be a real swinger.
這個人可真是個時髦人物.
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3. You can hardly recognize in him the swinger he was thirty years ago.
在他身上你很難看到三十年前他是何等招搖.
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4. Riders of the Wave Swinger fly through the airthe Royal Easter Show in Sydney on Tuesday.