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pinky-swear

pinky-swear is the alternative form of pinky swear.

Meaning of pinky swear

Verb

pinky swear (third-person singular simple present pinky swears, present participle pinky swearing, simple past pinky swore, past participle pinky sworn)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To swear (promise) to (someone) with the pinky fingers entwined.
    Synonyms:
    pinky promise

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Forms of pinky-swear

third-person singular presentpinky-swears
present participlepinky-swearing
pastpinky-swore
past participlepinky-sworn

Questions about pinky-swear

What is pinky-swear the alternative form of?
Pinky-swear is the alternative form of pinky swear.

Words near pinky-swear in the dictionary

  1. pinky toes
  2. pinky-promise
  3. pinky-promised
  4. pinky-promises
  5. pinky-promising
  6. pinky-swear
  7. pinky-swearing
  8. pinky-swears
  9. pinky-swore
  10. pinky-sworn
  11. pinlay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinky-swear (page history and authors); pinky swear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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