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Schwung¹

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Borrowed from German Schwung.

noun

  1. idiomatic, uncommon Drive, energy, or verve. Now in regard to the points here raised by Mr. Brown it might perhaps be replied that the schwung alluded to belonged to the man, not the dialect, and that Tennyson could never have restricted himself to the Lincolnshire dialect, his outlook on the world and his knowledge of life necessarily overste

schwung²

noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Schwung

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@misc{schwung_2026,
  title = {schwung},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/schwung},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}