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swearing like a sailor

swearing like a sailor is the present participle and gerund of swear like a sailor.

Meaning of swear like a sailor

Verb

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

  1. (simile) Synonym of swear like a trooper.

Questions about swearing like a sailor

What is swearing like a sailor the present participle and gerund of?
Swearing like a sailor is the present participle and gerund of swear like a sailor.

Words near swearing like a sailor in the dictionary

  1. swearing in
  2. swearing jar
  3. swearing jars
  4. swearing like a cutter
  5. swearing like a pagan
  6. swearing like a sailor
  7. swearing like a trooper
  8. swearing off
  9. swearing on
  10. swearing on a stack
  11. swearing on a stack of Bibles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swearing like a sailor (page history and authors); swear like a sailor (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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