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means A suspended bench, hung by chains or ropes from a porch ceiling, built for slow rocking and slower afternoons.

from A plain compound — 'porch' borrowed from the French 'porche,' tracing back to Latin 'porticus' (a covered gallery or portico), and 'swing,' from Old English 'swingan,' meaning to move freely back and forth. The thing itself is an American domestic invention of the 1800s, when covered front porches became a fixture of houses built for hot climates, and someone realized a seat that moved made waiting for nothing feel like doing something.