schwing
interjection
schwing is an interjection meaning “An exclamation of excitement or physical attraction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-H-W-I-N-G and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does schwing mean?
interjection
- 1
USslangAn exclamation of excitement or physical attraction.
What a babe! Schwing!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce schwing?
- Australia
Schwing has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-schwing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is schwing?
Schwing appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does schwing come from?
The term is an onomatopoeia of the sound a sword makes when drawn from a metal scabbard. Popularized by the Wayne's World sketch on the television show Saturday Night Live.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).