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"text": "Hey, everyone fantasizes about what kind of swinging stud or studette they could be if they were only free from the shackles of domesticity.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"Sexually promiscuous."
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"promiscuous",
"promiscuous"
]
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈswɪŋɪŋ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋɪŋ"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"swinging"
],
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}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"Pages with 2 entries",
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"en:Sex"
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "more swinging",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "most swinging",
"tags": [
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]
}
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"args": {},
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}
],
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{
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"word": "swingeing"
}
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{
"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "“It is an eating fever then,” says the landlady; “for he hath devoured two swinging buttered toasts this morning for breakfast.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Alternative form of swingeing"
],
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"swingeing",
"swingeing#English"
]
],
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"alternative"
]
}
],
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"swinging"
],
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}
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"2": "nouns",
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],
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "swinger"
},
{
"word": "swingerklubb"
},
{
"word": "dogging"
}
],
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}
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