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PRONUNCIATION OF WIFE SWAPPING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WIFE SWAPPING

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Wife swapping is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WIFE SWAPPING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Swinging (sexual practice)

Swinging, also known as wife swapping or partner swapping is a non-monogamous behavior, in which partners in a committed relationship engage in sexual activities with others as a recreational or social activity. The phenomenon of swinging, or at least its wider discussion and practice, is regarded by some as arising from the freer attitudes to sexual activity after the sexual revolution of the 1960s, the invention and availability of the contraceptive pill and the emergence of treatments for many of the sexually transmitted diseases that were known at that time. The swinger community sometimes refers to itself as "the lifestyle", or as "the alternative lifestyle". The term "wife swapping" or "partner swapping" is criticized for not accurately describing the full range of sexual activities in which both singles or couples may engage, which is not limited to conventional sex with a person other than their regular sex partner. Other terms sometimes encountered are wife sharing, partner sharing, wife trading and wife lending, which describe similar concepts, usually in sociological or anthropological research.

Definition of wife swapping in the English dictionary

The definition of wife swapping in the dictionary is the temporary exchange of wives between married couples for sexual relations.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WIFE SWAPPING

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wienie
Wiesbaden
Wiesel
Wiesenthal
wife
wife batterer
wife-beater
wife-beating
wife-swapping
wife´s equity
wifedom
wifehood
wifeless
wifelike
wifeliness
wifely
wifey
wifie
wifty

WORDS THAT END LIKE WIFE SWAPPING

camping
clipping
dripping
dropping
flipping
home shopping
hopping
mapping
overlapping
popping
propping
shipping
shopping
stepping
stopping
stripping
swapping
tapping
tipping
topping
wrapping

Synonyms and antonyms of wife swapping in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «wife swapping» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WIFE SWAPPING

Find out the translation of wife swapping to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wife swapping from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wife swapping» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

妻交换
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

intercambio de esposas
570 millions of speakers

English

wife swapping
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पत्नी गमागमन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

زوجة مبادلة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

жена подкачка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

troca de esposas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ত্রী সোয়াপিং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

un échange de femmes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bertukar isteri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Frau Swapping
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

妻スワッピング
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아내 스와핑
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bojoku ngganti
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trao đổi vợ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மனைவி மாற்றப்பட்டது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पत्नीचे आणीबाणी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Karısı takas
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

moglie lo swapping
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

żona zamiana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дружина підкачка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Soția pompare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σύζυγος swapping
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vrou uitruiling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hustru swapping
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kone swapping
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wife swapping

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WIFE SWAPPING»

The term «wife swapping» is regularly used and occupies the 86.280 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WIFE SWAPPING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wife swapping

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIFE SWAPPING»

Discover the use of wife swapping in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wife swapping and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Marriage Customs of the World: From Henna to Honeymoons
Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Thompson, E. P. 1993. Customs in Common. London: Penguin. Wife-Swapping In the archives of the Folklore Society in London is an undated, but probably late- nineteenth-century, note on black-bordered paper, from ...
George Monger, 2004
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My Poetic Phrases and Quotations
This wife swapping to us was just the job. Yes it was our generation, who started this trend. Swapping our wives, for the wife of a friend. We started by playing, just lets pretend. But we ended up wife swapping, in the end We loved this game ...
Charlie Walker, 1999
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Feminizing Chaucer
Excursus: Wife-Swapping. in. Medieval. Literature. The starting-point of this chapter is an article by Felicity Riddy called 'Engendering Pity in the Franklin's Tale'(Evans and Johnson, 1994, 54–71). The argument of this article is that the ...
Jill Mann, 2002
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Daughters of the Earth
Other less permanent types of wife-swapping were practiced among several North American tribes. In these societies a husband considered his wife adulterous only if she chose to have intercourse with someone else; it was not adultery when ...
Carolyn Niethammer, 2010
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Gender, Ritual and Social Formation in West Papua: A ...
The couple arrive in a cloud of ashes and stand in the smoke, perspiring heavily. In this way the bad odours of the dead are purged, so as to prevent illness. The woman Kankani also initiates wife-swapping. Consequently, Biwiripic and the ...
Jan Pouwer, 2010
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Family Affairs: A History of the Family in 20th Century England
Reports of 'wife-swapping' parties suggest that - in some citcles - the assumption that lust might legitimately be separated from love, companionship and family responsibilities was spreading. Middle-aged and securely married, Richard ...
Mary Abbott, 2003
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Switch Bitch
These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.
Roald Dahl, 2002
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Islam: Evil in the Name of God
Islamic wife-swapping requires saying "talaq" three times to one of the four wives, and replacing her with another wife.) The woman will be removed from the household with no legal rights to visit the children or financial rights to any shared  ...
Jake Neuman, 2009
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: An Utterly Complete, ...
_C__ "Come Wife-Swapping—North West v the South East”——(link out of " International Wife-Swapping”) Spoofing the Come Dancing ballroom dance show that made its debut on the BBC in 1949. Regions of England competed against each ...
Darl Larsen, 2008
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In the Shadow of the Tower: Sex, Fear, and Politics on a ...
From Bonnie May 1972 I am enclosing Erv Kapman's obituary. I know you always read them. The paper says he died of a heart attack. Maybe so, but wife swapping has claimed its first victim. The Kapmans and the Gills were in New York for a ...
Marjorie Hacker, 2010

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WIFE SWAPPING»

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Dear Doc: Pregnant after wife swapping
Q. My wife and I have enjoyed a pretty happy sexual relationship with another couple for around five years. Neither of us have children. But now there is trouble. «Jamaica Gleaner, May 15»
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Naval officer's wife accuses his superiors of wife swapping
After allegations of molestation and sexual harassment, a naval officer's wife in Kochi has accused her husband and other senior officers in the Navy of indulging ... «Firstpost, Apr 13»
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Revealed: Italy is the home of wife swapping
The La Stampa article, primly struggling with whether to call this new Italian predilection a "passion" or a "hobby", said wife swapping had increased everywhere ... «Independent, Aug 08»

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« EDUCALINGO. Wife swapping [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/wife-swapping>. May 2024 ».
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