English
swingeing
From swinge + -ing.
Formed from swinge + -ing
Proto-Germanic *swinganą ‘to swing’
Proto-Germanic *swankijaną ‘to cause to swing, to waver’
Proto-West Germanic *swangijan ‘to cause to swing’
Old English swenġan ‘to dash, strike’
Middle English swengen ‘to strike’
English swinge
The story
Swinge is derived from Middle English swengen (‘to strike’), from Old English swengan (‘to dash, strike; to cause to swing’).
Today it means
adj Huge, immense.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / swingeing