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swan hopping

swan hopping is the alternative form of swan upping.

Meaning of swan upping

Noun

swan upping (countable and uncountable, plural swan uppings)

  1. An annual swan census in Britain in which mute swans on the River Thames are rounded up, caught, marked, and released.

Origin of swan hopping

A corrupted form.

Questions about swan hopping

What is swan hopping the alternative form of?
Swan hopping is the alternative form of swan upping.

Words near swan hopping in the dictionary

  1. swan grebe
  2. Swan Hill
  3. Swan Hill West
  4. swan hopper
  5. swan hoppers
  6. swan hopping
  7. Swan Island
  8. swan maiden
  9. swan maidens
  10. swan mark
  11. swan marks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swan hopping (page history and authors); swan upping (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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