swayback
noun
swayback is a noun meaning “An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-W-A-Y-B-A-C-K, and it appears about once in every 76 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of swayback is swaybacks.
What does swayback mean?
noun
- 1
An excessive sagging of the spine of a quadruped animal, especially a horse.
- 2
An animal with such excessive sagging.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of swayback
- swaybacks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is swayback?
Swayback appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th 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).
Swayback in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense which sense??:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | hiperlordosis |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does swayback come from?
From sway + back.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).