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 Surf. 3i Swabber. 1614. Terence in English. You are the
same man that you were : old surebie, no flinsher. ^.1657. Bradford,
Sermons [Rept.]. Yes, there is one which is suresby as they say, to
serve if anything will serve. Surf, sub. (theatrical).— A halfand-half
PROFESSIONAL (q.V.) player or musician : combining some daily
occupation with nightly duty on or in connection with the boards.
Surly, As surly as a butcher's dog, phr. (old). — Very surly (Ray).
Surly- boots (or Surling), subs, phr. (old). — A grumpy morose fellow
: cf. Lazy-boots. rf.1623. Camden, Remains, 176. And as for these
sowre surlings, they are to be commended to Sieur Gaulard. 1812.
Coombe, Syntax, 1. xxii. A sudden jolt their slumbers broke, They
started all, and all awoke ; When surlyboots yawn'd wide and spoke.
Surprisers (The), subs. phr. (military). — The 46th Foot, now the
2nd Batt. of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Surtout, subs. (B.
E.). — ' A loose, great, or riding Coat' (B. E.). Surveyor of the
Highway, subs, phr. (old). — A man reeling drunk (Grose) : see
Inspector. Surveyor of the Pavement, subs. phr. (old). — A man in
the pillory (Grose and Bee). Suspense. In deadly suspense, adv. phr.
(old).— Hanged (Grose). Sus. per Coll., phr. (old).— ' Hanged by the
neck ' — Lat. suspensus per collum. [Grose : 1 persons who have
been hanged are thus entered in the jailer's books.'] 1850.
Thackeray, Pendennis, u. xxv. That lamentable note of sus. per coll.
at the name of the last male of her line. Ibid. (1867), Denis Duval, i.
None of us Duvals have been suspercollated to my knowledge.
Suspicion, subs, (colloquial). — A very small quantity : cf Fr.
soupcon. 1863. Hawthorne, Our Old Home. A mere spice or
suspicion of austerity which made it all the more enjoyable. 1867.
Trollope, Last Chronicles of Barset, xlix. He was engaged in brushing
a suspicion of dust from his black gaiters. 1886. D. Tel., 25 Sep. With
just a suspicion of Irish brogue that only serves to increase the
interest of her piquancy and fun. Verb. (American). — To suspect.
1889. Harper's Mag., Ixxx. 349. They somehow suspicion'd he wasn't
quite sound on hell. 1899. Westcott, David Harum, i. Didn't ye
suspicion nuthin' when he took ye up like that ? Sut, adj. (tailors').
— Satisfactory ; fortunate. Swab, subs. (old). — I. See Swabber. 2.
(nautical). — A naval officer's epaulet : jocose or in contempt : cf
Swabber, sense i. Swabber, subs. (old). — i. 'The sorriest sea-men
put to wash and clean the ship' (B. E. and Grose : in this sense good
Shakspearean English) ; hence (2) a term of contempt. Also Swab.
1602. Shakspeare, Twelfth Night, i. 5. 216. Mar. Will you hoist sail,
sir? . . . Vio. No, good swabber ; I am to hull here a little longer.
Ibid. (1609), ii. 2. 48. The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and
I.
 Swack. 32 Swad. 1609. Beaumont and Fletcher, Scornful
Lady, iii. 1. My lady speaks with no such swabbers. 1634. Ford,
Perkin Warbeck, i. 1. More fit to be a swabber to the Flemish, After a
drunken surfeit. 1678. Cotton, Virgil Travestie (1770), 33. This being
said, our lusty swabber Groan'd like a Woman in her Labour. 1725.
Bailey, Erasmus, 42. I am his swabber ... his brawl, his errand boy.
1748. Smollett, Roderick Random. xxiv. He swore accordingly at the
lieutenant, and called him . . . swab and lubbard. 1886. Besant,
World Went Well, etc., xxix. Luke was a grass comber and land
swab. 3. (old). — ' The ace of hearts, knave of clubs, ace and deuce
of trumps at whist' (B. E. and Grose) : the holder was entitled to a
portion of the stakes. [These four cards were only incident to betting
at whist. ] c. 1700. Swift [quoted by Strutt, Shorts and Pastimes
(1801, etc.), 436]. The clergymen used to play at whist and
swobbers ; playing now and then a sober game at whist for pastime,
it might be pardoned ; but he could not digest those wicked
swobbers. 1754. Fielding, Jonathan Wild, 1. iv. As whisk and
swabbers was the game then in the chief vogue, they were oblig'd to
look for a fourth person, in order to make up their parties. 1817.
Scott, Rob Roy, 1. 225. The society of half a dozen of clowns to play
at whisk and swabbers would give her more pleasure than if Ariosto
himself were to awake from the dead. Swack, subs. (Christ's
Hospital). — Deception. Hence to swack UP = to deceive ; to take in
{q.v.). Also swack-up = a falsehood. Swad, subs. (old). — 1. A
reproach : generic ; spec. (1) a rustic or clodhopper ; and (2) a
disbanded soldier (Grose), nowadays a militiaman. Also SWADder,
swadkin, swadgill, and SWADDY. 1534. Holinshed, Chron. of Ireland.
Three drunken swads that kept the castell thought that this showt
was nought else but a dreame. 1588. Greene, Perimedes. Let
countrey swaines and silly swads be still ; To court, yoong wag, and
wanton there thy fill. 1592. Lvly, Midas, iv. 3. I'll warrant, that was
devised by some country SWAD. J593' Peele, Honour of the Garter.
There came a pilfring swad And would have prayd upon this
ornament. 1606. Return front Parnassus. But hang them, swadds,
the basest corner in my thoughts is too gallant a roome to lodge
them in. 1622. Taylor, Motto. I have opinion, and have ever had,
That when I see a stagg'ring drunken swad, Then that a man worse
then an asse I see. 1633. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, ii. 1. Now I
remember me, There was one busie fellow was their leader, A blunt
squat swad. 1638. Braithwaite, Survey of History. A squeazed swad
without either meanes, manners, or mannor. 1640. Two Lancashire
Lovers, 22. How should the reasonable soule (unlesse all his prime
faculties were drowned and drenched in the lees of sense) affect
such a SWAD? 1656. Blount, Glossog., 627. Swad, in the North, is a
pescod shell ; thence used for an empty shallow-headed fellow.
d.1701. Dryden, Counter Scuffle [Misc., iii. 340]. Wer't not for us,
thou swad, quoth he, Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee? 2.
(common). — A lump, bunch, crowd, mass : also swod.
 Swadder. 33 Swag. 1840. Haliburton, The Clockmaker, 3 S.
vi. How is a colonist able to pay for this almighty swad of everlasting
plunder, seem' he has no gold or silver? 1865. Major Downing s
Letters, 35. There was a swad of fine folks, and the house was well-
nigh upon chuck full. 1869. Overland Monthly, iii. 131. A Texan never
has a great quantity of any thing, but he has scads of it or oodles or
dead oodles, or scadoodles, or swads. Swadder, subs. (Old Cant).—
i. See quot. 1567. Harman, Caveat, 72. These Swadders and Pedlars
be not all evil, but of an indifferent behaviour. 2. See Swad. Swaddle,
verb, (old).— To cudgel ; to rope's end (B. E. and Grose) ; to swathe
round with lash or stick. Hence swadler (Old Cant) =' The tenth
Order of the Canting Tribe ' (B. E.) 'who not only rob, but beat and
often murder passengers ' (Grose). c.i 570. Wife Lapped in Morels
Skin, 845. [Hazlitt, Early Pop. Poet., iv. 214]. I sweare by God, and
by saynt John, Thy bones will I swaddle, so have I blisse. 161 1.
Cotgrave, Diet., s.v. Chaperon. Hee bangde, belammed, thumped,
swadled her. 1612-3. Fletcher, Captain, ii. 1. Were it not for taking So
just an execution from his hands, ... I would swaddle ye, 'Till I could
draw off both your skins like scabbards. 1636. Davenant, Wits, iii. 1.
(1673). How now, housewife? Do you slight authority? Behold this
staff! in very truth I shall swaddle you with the King's wand of office.
1663. Butler, Hudibras, I. 1. v. 23. Great on the bench, great in the
saddle, He could as well bind o'er as swaddle. d.i-joi. Dryden,
Counter-Scuffle [Misc., iii. 347]. Behind the door he stood to hear,
For in he durst not come, for fear Of swadling, Swaddler, subs.
(Irish). — 1. A Methodist (Grose). Hence spec. (2) those who in
winter play the Protestant, for the sake of the blankets, coals, etc.,
given by proselytisers. Also (3), in America, a street preacher, spec.
(American thieves') a preaching confederate. 1820. Southey, Life of
Wesley, ii. 153. It happened that Cennick, preaching on Christmas
Day, took for his text these words from St. Luke's Gospel, ' And this
shall be a sign unto you ; ye shall find the babe wrapped in
swaddling-clothes, lying in a manger.' A Catholic who was present,
and to whom the language of Scripture was a novelty, thought this
so ridiculous that he called the preacher a swaddler in derision.
1845. Coke and Moore, Life of Wesley, 288. Butler and his mob were
now in higher spirits than ever ; they scoured the streets day and
night, frequently hallooing as they went along, ' Five pounds for a
swaddler's head ! ' 1889. Academy, n May, 317. To revive Sir W.
Petty's Colony by importing Northern Presbyterians and Cornish
swaddlers. 2. See Swad and Swaddle. Swag, subs. (Old Cant). — i. A
shop : spec, a mart for stolen goods. Whence a rum-swag = 'a shop
full of rich goods ' (B. E.) ; and swag-barrow = a coster's cart. Hence
(2) generic for property ; spec, booty : see quots. 1785, 1819, and
1823. Also SWAG-chovey bloke = a marine store dealer; swagsman
= (i) a receiver of stolen goods, and (2) a miscellaneous dealer in '
City penn'orths' and other cheap stuff, wholesale or retail. 1785.
Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Swag, a bundle, parcel, or package ; as a
swag of snow, etc. The swag, is a term used in speaking of any
booty you have lately obtained, be it of what kind it may, except
money, as Where did you lumber the swag ? that is, where did you
deposit the stolen property ? To carry the swag is to be the bearer of
the stolen goods to a
 Swag. 34 Swag. place of safety. A swag of any thing,
signifies emphatically a great deal. To have knap'd a good swag, is
to have got a good booty. 1819. Vaux, Memoirs, s.v. Swag. Wearing-
apparel, linen, piece-goods, etc., are all comprehended under the
name of swag, when describing any speak lately made, etc., in order
to distinguish them from plate, jewellery, or other more portable
articles. 1823. Bee, Diet, of Turf, s.v. Swag (the) — store of money. '
The swag lies upstairs, in a chest of drawers. . . . Rum-swAG — A
good deal of it. 1827. Cunningham, Two Years in New South Wales,
ii. 59. A number of the slang phrases current in St. Giles's Greek bid
fair to become legitimatized in the dictionary of this colony : plant,
swag, pulling up, and other epithets of the Tom and Jerry school, are
established — the dross passing here as genuine, even among all
ranks. 1837. Mudie, Felonry of New South Wales, 181. In short,
having brought with her a supply of the swag, as the convicts call
their ill-gotten cash, a wife seldom fails of having her husband
assigned to her, in which case the transported felon finds himself his
own master. 1838. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xix. ' It's all arranged about
bringing off the swag, is it ? ' asked the Jew. Sikes nodded. 1840.
Barham, Ingolds. Legends, ' Misadv. at Margate.' He said ' he'd done
me wery brown, and neatly stowed the SWAG.' 1851-61. Mayhew,
London Lab., ii. 93. Swagmen who sell low-priced millinery. 1856.
Reade, Never too Late, etc., xlvi. He will shake all that nonsense to
blazes when he finds himself out under the moon with the swag on
one side and the gallows on the other. 1861. Kingsley, Ravenshoe,
xxxvii. If any enterprising burglar had taken it into his head to crack
that particular crib known as the Bridge Hotel, and got clean off with
the swag, he might have retired on the hard-earned fruits of a well-
spent life into happier lands. 1897. Marshall, Pomes, 121. The
gentleman swore he'd been bested, And Sam had passed on the
swag. 1900. Flynt, Tramfis, 282. ' It ain't such a bad lot,' he said; 'I
chew every day, get a big swag once in a while. ' 3. (Australian). —
A tramp's bundle in a bluey {q.v.) ; hence personal luggage; traps
{q.v.). As verb = to tramp the bush carrying a SWAG ; SWAGMAN
(SWAGGER or swaggie) = a man travelling in search of work : cf.
Sundowner. 1853. Sidney, Three Colonies, 361. His leathern overalls,
his fancy stick, and his swag done up in mackintosh. 1861.
McCombie, Australian Sketches, 5. There was the solitary pedestrian,
with the whole of his supplies, consisting of a blanket and other
necessary articles, strapped across his shoulders : this load is called
the swag and the mode of travelling swagging it. 1865. J. O. Tucker,
Australian Story, i. 86. The cumbrous weight of blankets that
comprised my swag. 1873. Trollope, Australia and New Zealand, i.
285. Swag, which consists of his personal properties rolled up in a
blanket. 1875. Lady Barker, Station A musements in New Zealand,
154. Describing the real swagger, clad in flannel shirt, moleskin
trowsers, and what were once thick boots. 1879. J- Brunton
Stephens, Drought and Doctrine (Works, 309). Rememberin' the
needful, I gets up an' quietly slips To the porch to see — a
swagsman — with our bottle at his lips. 1883. Keighley, Who are You
? 36. Then took a drink of tea . . . Such as the swagmen in our
goodly land Have with some humour named the post-and-rail. 1890.
Argus, 2 Aug., 4, 2. He strapped the whole lot together, swAG-like.
Ibid. (1896), The Argus, 23 March, 5, 1. The minister's house is the
sure mark for every stone-broke swagger in search of clothes or
victuals. 1891. Boldrewood, A Sydney-side Saxon, 156. We pulled up
a swagman. He was walking very slow ; he was a bit lame too. His
swag wasn't heavy, for he had only a rag of a blue blanket, a billy of
water in his hand, and very little else. 1902. Pall Mall Gaz., 26 July,
2. 1. The unmarried shearer, roaming, swag on back, from station to
station, chasing summer down the latitudes, leads an active,
pleasant life enough.
 Swag-belly. 35 Swagger, Swag- belly, subs. phr. (old). — A
very fat man or woman ; a swing-paunch. [Swag = to weigh
heavily.] Hence swaggy (or SWAG - BELLIED) = fat, FORTYGUTTED
(q.v.). 1530. Palsgrave, Langue Francoyse. I swagge, as a fatte
persons belly swaggeth as he goth. 1602. Shakspeare, Othello, ii. 3.
I learned it in England, where, indeed, they are most potent in
potting: your Dane, your German, and your swagbellied Hollander ...
are nothing to your English. 1646. Browne, Vulg. Errors, hi. iv. His
swaggy and prominent belly. 1694. Motteux, Rabelais, v. 'Pant.
Prog.,' v. However, so many swagbellies and puff-bags will hardly go
to St Hiacco, as there did in the year 524. 1886. Oliphant, New
English, i. 462. The swagge of 1303 [see quot. 1530] is here used of
a fat man's belly ; hence the swag-bellied Hollander, and also the
later swagger. Swagger, suds, and verb, (once literary : now
colloquial : B. E. and Grose). — Bluster ; bravado ; roaring insolence
; side {q.v.). As verb — to strut defiantly ; to boast ; to bluster ; to
affect or obtrude superiority : see quot. 1898. Also derivatives such
as SWAGGERER and SWAGGERING. 1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes,
s.v. Ruffo . . . Also a ruffling roister or ruffian, a swaggrer. 1598.
Shakspeare, 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. Your ancient swaggerer comes not in
my doors. Ibid. (1599), Hen. V., iv. 7. 131. A rascal that swaggered
with me last night. 1607. Dekker, Northward Ho, iv. 1. A swaggering
fellow, sir, that speaks not like a man of God's making, swears he
must speak with you, and will speak with you. 1612. Rowlands, Hist.
Rogues [Ribton-Turner, 582]. They chose a notable swaggering
rogue called Puffing Dicke to reuell over them. c. 1622. Heywood,
Fair Maid of the West [Pearson, Works, (1894), ii. 279]. Can we not
live in compasse of the Law, But must be swaggered out on't ? 1636.
Davenant, Wits, i. 2. And swagger in the wool [that] we shall borrow
from our own flocks. 1678. Cudworth, Intellectual System, 61. It was
Atheism openly swaggering, under the glorious appearance of
wisdom and philosophy. 1699. Dryden, Cox and Fox, 443. [He]
swaggereth like a lord about his hall. 1725. Swift, Will Wood's
Petition. The butcher is stout, and he values no swagger. Ibid. Court
and Empire of Japan. He would swagger the boldest man into a
dread of his power. 1765. Goldsmith, Essays, x. The bunters who
swagger in the streets of London. 1809. Malkin, Gil Bias, 136. She
could put on as brazen-faced a swagger as the most impudent dog
in town. 1835. Marryatt, Pacha of Many Tales. 'The Water Carrier.' It
requires but an impudent swagger and you are taken on your own
representation. 1844. Thackeray, Barry Lyndon, xv. As for the
swagger ... I deny it in toto, being always most modest in my
demeanour. 1880. Payn, Confid. Agent, xi. The captain [put] ... a
good deal of side on, which became a positive swagger as he
emerged into the more fashionable street. 1898. Warner, Harrow
School, 280. The rules of ' swagger ' or [side] are most complex . . .
And a new boy is apt to find himself entangled. He goes out with his
umbrella rolled up ... or carries it by its middle, or under his arm, or
he walks on the middle terrace after chapel, or he innocently wears
his ' blues ' open when it is hot, or turns his trousers up when it is
wet, and . . . he is swaggering. Lady visitors ■ sometimes think
small boys at Harrow rude ... to stick close to the wall . . . and
shoulder the world into the gutter — it is modesty ; to walk in the
road is swagger. To loiter at the house door, or to sing or whistle in
the passages, and to wear a hat in the house are also forms of
swagger. 1901. Walker, In the Blood, 107. He wore a new cricketing
belt round his loins, as low down as he could get it to go ; the lower
down the greater assumption of ' push ' swagger.
 Swaining. 36 Swallow-tail. Adj. (common). — Tip-top (q.v.)\
swell (q.v.)\ extremely new. 1886. New York Tribune (SemiWeekly),
2 Nov. His gambling parties were so swagger that rich money-
lenders who wanted to extend their social relations did not mind to
what extent they . . . lost money at them. 1897. Ouida, Massarines,
8. Lord, ma'am, they'll pocket the marrons glaces at the table d'hote
and take the matches away from their bedrooms ; but, then, you
see, ma'am, them as are swagger can do them things. 1900. White,
West End, 43. 'We are now living in a very different style.' . . . * It
looks a great deal more swagger certainly.' Swaining, subs,
(common). — Love-making; spooning (q.v.). 1830. Mrs. Trollope,
Michael Armstrong; i. His general manner had a good deal of what in
female slang is called SWAINING. Swallow, subs, (once literary : now
vulgar or colloquial). — 1. The throat : also swallowpipe ; (2) the act
of swallowing ; and (3) a mouthful : hence (4) taste, relish,
inclination, or capacity. As verb = to receive, endure, or embrace
credulously, patiently, without examination, scruple or reserve ;
occasionally TO SWALLOW WHOLE. (B. E.). Hence swallowable =
credible. 1596. Shakspeare, King John, iv. 2. 195. I saw a smith
stand . . . With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. Ibid. (1603),
Meas. for Meas., iii. 1. 235. Left her . . . swallowed his vows whole,
pretending in her discoveries of dishonour. 1613. Purchas,
Pilgrimage, 92. The mother (not able to swallow her shame and
grief) Cast herselfe into the lake to bee swallowed of the water.
1616-25. Court and Times Jas. I., ii. 442. [A man] swallows
indignities. 1690. Locke, Human Understanding, IV. xx. 4. Here men
. . . must . . . swallow down opinions as silly people do empiric pills,
without knowing what they are made of. 1703. Farquhar, Inconstant,
m. 1. I have swallowed my words already ; I have eaten them up.
1796. Wolcot ('Peter Pindar'), Works, 147. Each paunch with guttling
was so swelled, Not one bit more could pass your swallow-pipe.
1834. Wilson, Nodes Ambros., Dec. Attend to the differences
between a civilized swallow and a barbarous bolt. 1841. Punch, i.
169. Men with swallows like Thames Tunnels, in fact accomplished
gaggers and unrivalled wiry watchers. 1849. Maitland, Essays on the
Reformation, 315. An anecdote in its hundredth edition, and its most
mitigated and swallowable form. 1885. Buck, Handbook of Med. Sci.,
v. 4. A swallow or two of hot milk sometimes aids in coughing up
tenacious mucus. 1899. Westcott, David Harum, xxiii. She took a
swallow of the wine. ' How do you like it ? ' asked David. Phrases. —
■ One swallow does not make a spring' (Heywood, 1546 =
proverbial) ; TO swallow a spider = to become a bankrupt (Ray) ; '
You say true ; will you swallow my knife ? ' (a sarcastic retort on an
impossible story) ; to swallow a tavern TOKEN = to get drunk ; TO
SWALLOW THE CACKLE =tO leam a part (theatrical) ; ' He has
swallowed a stake, and cannot stoop ' (of a very upright unbending
person). 1596. Jonson, Ev. Man in Humour, i. 3. Drunk, sir ! you hear
not me say so : perhaps he swallowed a tavern token or some such
device. Swallow-tail, subs. phr. (old). — I. See quot. 1544. 1544.
Ascham, Toxophilus [Giles, ii. 130]. Having two points or barbs,
looking backward to the stele and the feathers, which surely we call
in English a broad arrow head, or a swallow-tail. 1828. Scott, Fair
Maid of Perth, ii. 223. The English then strode forward, . . . and sent
off their volleys of swallowtails before we could call on St. Andrew.
 Swan. 37 Swap. 2. (nautical). — The points of a burgee. 3.
(common). — A dress coat ; a STEEL-PEN COAT {q.V.). 1886.
Referee, 29 Aug. He is stripped of his swallow-tail and his
pseudonym, and marched off to the guard -room again. 1888.
Besant, Fifty Years Ago, 50. Here is one of the new police, with blue
swallow-tail coat tightly buttoned, and white trousers. 1902. Lynch,
Unseen Hand, i. He passed his hand caressingly over the lapel of an
immaculate swallow-tail. 4. ( ? punning nonce-word). — A tongue
always wagging. 1690. D'Urfey, Collin's Walk, i. He'd tire your ear
with pentagons . . . And all your outworks would assail With his
eternal swallow's tail. Swan. I swan, intj. (American). — ' I swear ! ■
Also (more emphatically), ' I SWAN TO MAN ! ' 1842. Clavers, Forest
Life, I. 29. 1 Well, I swan ! ' exclaimed the mamma, giving a round
box on the ear to a dirty little urchin. 1862. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2
S. i. But they du preach, I swan to man, it's puf kly indescrib'le. Ibid.
vi. I swan, You half forgit you've gut a body on. 1899. Westcott,
David H arum, xiv. ' You c'n git round on your pins 'bout's lively 's
they make 'em, I guess, I swan,' he exclaimed. Swank, verb, (public
school).— To work hard : cf. Swink. SwANKER = a hard-working
student. Swan key, subs, (common).— Any weak tipple : spec, small
beer. Also (fishermen's) a mixture of water, molasses, and vinegar.
Swannery. To keep a swannery, verb. phr. (old). — To boast of one's
own doings, possessions, etc. ; to make out that all one's geese are
swans (Grose). Swan-SLINGER, subs. phr. (theatrical.— A player
fond of or famous for Spouting Bill {q.v. ) ; a Shakspearean actor :
the same as 'slinging the Swan of Avon.' Swap (or Swop), subs,
(colloquial).— An act of barter ; an exchange. As verb = to exchange
; to strike a bargain. ( B. E. ) Grose [ = ' Irish Cant . '] and Bee.
1360. Sir Gawayn [E.E.T.S]. 35. [Oliphant, New. Eng., i. 58. The old
swap gets the new sense of 'make an exchange.' 1594. Lyly, Mother
Bombie, v. 3. Soft, ' I'le not swap my father for all this.' . . . ' What,
doe you thinke I'le be coz'ned of my father ? ' 1692. Dryden,
Cleomenes. I would have swopp'd Youth for old age, and all my life
behind, To have been then a momentary man. 1707. Ward, Hud.
Red., 11. ii. 5. Those, who to preserve their Health, Had swop'd their
little Store of Wealth. 1724. Swift, Wood's Halfpence. A fine lady
swapping her moles for the mange. 1781. Parker, View of Society, II.
48. The hostler then says he has a choice nag or daisy-kicker to sell
or swap. 1819. Scott, Bride of Lammermoor, xxvi. For the pouther, I
e'en changed it ... for gin and brandy ... a gude swap too. 1830.
Cobbett, Rural Rides, (1886), l. 199. It is barter, truck, change,
dicker, as the Yankees call it, but as our horse jockies call it, swap, or
chop. 1853. Reade, Gold, i. Carry out a cargo of pea-jackets and
four-penny bits to swap for gold dust. 1862. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2
S. v. We'd better take maysures for shetting up shop, And put off our
stock by a vendoo or swop. 1887. Eggleston, Graysons, x. Farmers
frequented the town, to meet old friends and get the better of them
in swapping horses. 1894. Baker, New Timothy, 187. Not even the
greasy cards can stand against the attractions of a swap of horses,
and these join the group.
 Swapper. 38 Swash. 1899. Whiteing, John St., xiv. You two
countries ought to swap grandmothers, and then you'd match. 1900.
Savage, Brought to Bay, ii. Don Andres proposes to swap herd for
herd, taking our cattle as they run, at fifteen dollars, and giving us
half-breed sheep at three. TO GET THE SWAP (or SWOP), verb. phr.
(common). — To be dismissed. To swap OFF, verb. phr. (American).
— To cheat ; TO SKLL (f.c). 1880. Harris, Uncle Remus, iv. Den Brer
Fox know dat he been swap off mighty bad. Swapper, subs,
(common). — Anything large or big : see Whopper. Hence swapping
= huge ; strong; Ai. 1589. Countercuffe given to Martin Junior. A
filch-man in his hande, a swapping ale dagger at his back,
containing by estimation some two or three pounds of yron in the
hyltes and chape. 1624. Middleton, Game at Chess, iv. 2. Ay, marry,
sir, here's swapping sins indeed. Swarm, verb, (colloquial). — To
climb ; to shin up. . . . Syr Isumbras, 351. He swarmed up into a
tree, Whyle eyther of them might other se. 1888. Spectator [Century
Diet.]. Swarming up the lightning conductor of a great church to fix
a flag at the top of the steeple. Swarry, subs, (common). — A boiled
leg of mutton and trimmings. 1837. Dickens, Pickwick, xxxviii.
Honourably accounts for Mr. Weller's absence by describing a . . .
swarry ... a boiled leg of mutton, hot, with caper sauce, turnips, and
potatoes. Swartwout, verb. (American). — To abscond. [From the
name of a public defaulter in New York.] Swash, verb. (old). — i. To
make a noise : see quot. 1662. Hence SWASH - BUCKLER (SWASH,
SWASHER or SWINGE-BUCKLER) = a sword er good at a lively peal
on his opposite's target ; and, therefore, by implication, a ruffier,
bully , Hector. As subs. = bluster, vapouring, roaring ; swashing (or s
washy) = (i) noisy (a swashing blow) ; and (2) = loudmouthed and
quarrelsome. 1560. Pilkington, Works [Parker], 151. A drunkard, a
whore-hunter, a gamer, a swash-buckler, a ruffian to waste his
money in proud apparel. 1577-87. Holinshed, Chron. Ireland, 87.
Whereby a man maie see how manie bloudie quarels a bralling
swashbuckler maie picke out of a bottle of haie, namelie when his
braines are forebitten with a bottle of nappie ale. 1582. Stanyhurst,
Mneid, ii. 220. Their tayls with croompled knot twisting swashlye
they wrigled. 1595. Shakspeare, Romeo and Juliet, i. 1. Draw, if you
be menGregory, remember thy swashing blow. Ibid. (1598), 2 Henry
IV,, iii. 2. 24. Shallow. You had not four such swingebucklers in all
the inns o' court again. Ibid. (1599), Henry V., iii. 2. As young as I
am, I have observed these three swashers [Nym, Pistol, and
Bardolph]. I am boy to them all three. Ibid. (1601), As You Like It, i.
3. ^ We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other
mannish cowards have. 1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, 74. A bravo,
a swash-buckler, one that for mony and good cheere will follow any
man to defend him and fight for him, but if any danger come, he
runs away the first and leaves him in the lurch. Ibid., 127. To fence,
to swash with swords, to swagger. 1609. Holland, Am. Mar. Leo, a
notarie afterwards, master of the offices, a very swash-buckler at
every funerall, a knowne robber, and a Pannonian ; one who
breathed foorth of his savage mouth crueltie, and yet was
neverthelesse greedie still of mans bloud. 161 1. Cory at, Crudities,
1. 54. Their men are very ruffians and swashbucklers, having
exceeding long blacke haire curled, and swords or other weapons by
their sides.
 Swash-bucket. 39 Swear. 1611. Cotgrave, Diet., s.v.
Bravache. A roister, cutter, swaggerer, swash buckler, one thats ever
vaunting of his owne valour. 1625, Jonson, Staple of News, v. 1. I do
confess a swashing blow. 1636. Heywood, Love's Mistress, 25. Ille
ipse, the same ; I desire no more than this sheep-hook in my hand
to encounter with that SWASH-BUCKLER. 1637. Davenant, Brit.
Triumph. [Nares.] With courtly knights, not roaring country swashes.
1662. Fuller, Worthies, 'London.' A ruffian is the same with a
swaggerer, so called, because endeavouring to make that side to
swag or weigh down whereon he ingageth. The same also with
swashbuckler, from swashing or making a noise on bucklers. 1677.
Ovid de Arte Amandi, 141. Or score out husbands in the charcoal
ashes, With country knights, nor roaring city swashes. 1809. Malkin,
Gil Bias [Routledge], 143. The lovely Aurora metamorphosed herself
in a twinkling, and resumed her swashing outside. Swash -bucket,
subs. phr. (common).— A slattern. Swat, subs, (old).— i. A blow. As
subs. = to strike ; to hit. Verb. (school). — To work hard; to sweat
(q.v.). [Orig. dialectical.] Also as subs. — hard study : spec. (Royal
Military Academy) = mathematics. Swatch el, subs. (Punch and
Judy).— Punch. Hence swatchel (or schwassle)-box = the Punch and
Judy show ; swatchEL-COVE = a Punch and Judy man : spec, the
patterer. The other terms connected with this drama of the streets
are : — Mozzy = Judy ; darkey = the negro ; vampo = the clown ;
VAMPiRE = the ghost ; buffer = the dog; buffer-figure = the dog's
master; crocodile = the demon; FiLio = the baby; the frame = the
street arrangement ; PEEPSiES = the panpipes; NOBbing-slum = the
bag for collecting money ; the letter cloth = the advertisement;
tambour = the drum ; the stalk (or prop) = the gallows ; the slum
fake = the coffin; THE SLUM = the call. 1887. Henley, Villon's Good
Night. You swatchel-coves that pitch and slam. Swattled, adj.
(common). — Drunk : see Screwed. Swear, subs, (colloquial). — An
oath ; a cuss (q.v.): also swearword. Also (colloquial) TO swear at
(said of anything incongruous) : e.g. ' His frock coat swore at his
bowler-hat ; TO SWEAR LIKE A LORD (trooper, etc. ) = to volley
oaths, TO MAKE THE AIR BLUE (q.V.) ; TO SWEAR THROUGH A
NINE INCH plank (nautical) = to back up any lie (C. Russell : ' a
favourite expression of Lord Nelson when referring to American
skippers '). 1531. Elyot, Governour (1834), 87. He that sweareth
deep, sweareth like a lord. 1651. Cartwright, Ordinary [Dodsley, Old
Plays (Reed), x. 295]. Gull'd by my swear ; by my swear, gull'd. Ibid.
I lose the taking, by my swear, of taking As much, whiles that I am
receiving this. 1672. Ray, Proverbs, ' He'll swear through a nine inch
board, a dagger out of sheath, the devil out of hell, 'till he's black in
the face.' 1756. Foote, Eng. Returned from Paris. [To] swear like a
trooper. i8[?]. Elect. Review (Amer.). {Century.'] There has been in
the past an immense quantity of scolding, occasionally a swear-
word.
 Sweat. 40 Sweat. 1887. St. James's Gaz., 4 June. It is a
dreadful thing to say, but I felt that if I didn't utter a big swear at
that moment something would happen. 1889. Harper's Mag., Ixxviii.
258. What is new in it . . . may swear at the old furniture and the
delightful old portraits. Sweat, verb, (once literary ; now colloquial).
— 1. To work hard ; to drudge ; to put in licks {q.v. ) ; also TO
sweat one's GUTS OUT. Cf. modern (public school) swat (or swot) =
fagging, hard study, especially mathematics, whence swot also = a
mathematician ; and as verb, to fag, or study hard (see quot. 1864).
1551. Robvnson, More's Utopia, ii. 11. Watching, waiting, and
sweating; hoping shortly to obtain it. 1597. Shakspeare, Richard III.,
v. 3. 255. If you do sweat to put a tyrant down, You sleep in peace
the tyrant being slain. 161 2. Chapman, Widow's Tears, v. 5. Come,
brother, thank the Countess ; She hath sweat to make your peace.
1622. Fletcher, Spanish Curate, iii. 3. I could out-plead An advocate,
and sweat as much as he Does for a double fee. d. 1667. Cowley,
Tree of Knowledge, 4. Henceforth, said God, the wretched Sons of
Earth Shall sweat for Food in vain. 1864. Hotten, Slang- Diet., s.v.
Swot. This word originated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,
in the broad Scotch pronunciation of Dr. Wallace, one of the
Professors, of the word ' sweat.' 1881. Pascoe, Everyday Life in Our
Public Schools. So much for work or swot, as the Harrovian, in
common with other boys, somewhat inelegantly terms the more
important part of instruction he receives at school. 1900. Kipling,
Stalky and Co., 135. Fags bully each other horrid ; but the upper
forms are supposed to be swottin' for exams. 2. (common). — To
suffer ; to pay the penalty. Also {trans. ) to beat ; to pay out. 1610.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Coxcomb, v. 1. Well, Jarvis, thou hadst
wrongs, and, if I live, Some of the best shall sweat for't. 3. (old). —
.&£ quots. 1712. Steele, Spectator, 332. These sweaters . . . seem to
me to have at present but a rough kind of discipline among them. c.
1780. Ireland Sixty Years Ago, (1847), 13. Others were known by
the sobriquet of ' Sweaters and Pinkindindies.' It was their practice
to cut off a small portion of the scabbards of the swords which every
one then wore, and prick, or ' pink ' the persons with whom they
quarrelled with the naked points, which were sufficiently protruded
to inflict considerable pain, but not sufficient to cause death. 1823.
Grose, Vulg. Tongue (3rd ed.), s.v. Sweating. A diversion practised
by the bloods of the last century, who styled themselves Mohocks :
these gentlemen lay in wait to surprise some person late in the
night, when surrounding him, they with their swords pricked him in
the posteriors, which obliged him to be constantly turning round :
this they continued till they thought him sufficiently sweated. 4.
(common). — To extort, lose, or squander money freely ; to FLEECE
{q.v). ; TO BLEED {q.V.) : see quot. 1784. Also TO SWEAT one's
purse sb to cause one to spend everything. 1784. Ireland Sixty Years
Ago, (1847), 14. They determined to amuse themselves by sweating
him, i.e., making him give up all his fire-arms. 5. (common). — To
work for (or employ labour at) starvation wages ; to submit to
extortion (or to extort). Hence Sweater = an employer of underpaid
labour : usually a middleman between the actual employer and
employed ; a grinding taskmaster. Whence SWEATING - SYSTEM,
SWEATER, SWEATED, etc. 1850. C. Kingsley, Cheap Clothes and
Nasty. At the honourable shops the master deals directly with his
workmen ; while at the dishonourable ones, the work is let out to
contractors or middle-men —
 Sweat. 41 Sweep. 'sweaters,' as their victims significantly
call them— who, in their turn, let it out again, sometimes to the
workmen, sometimes to fresh middle-men, so that out of the price
paid for labour on each article, not only the workmen, but the
sweater, and perhaps the sweater's sweater, and a third, and a
fourth, and a fifth, have to draw their profit. 1851-61. Mayhew,
Lond. Lab., 1. 64. I have many a time heard both husband and wife
— one couple especially who were sweating for a gorgeous clothes
emporium — say that they had not time to be clean. 1882. Contemp.
Review, Ivi. 880. It is possible that several of the minor industries of
the East End are absolutely dependent upon the fact that a low type
of sweated and overworked labour is employed at starvation wages.
1883. Pall Mall Gaz., 29 Oct. Sweaters' hacks turning out frockcoats.
1886. Echo, 1 Dec. Recently a trade journal published a list of
sweating firms in the clothing trade, each of which probably has
grounds of action. 1887. Nineteenth Century, xxii. 489. They
declared that they were being sweated, that the hunger for work
induced men to accept starvation rates. 6. (old). — To pawn. c.
1811. Maher, The Night Before Larry was Stretched. A bit in their
sacks, too, they fetched ; They sweated their duds till they riz it.
Phrases.— In a sweat=(i) in a hurry, and (2) in a state of terror,
impatient ; to sweat coins = to remove part of the metal from coins
(chiefly gold) by friction or acids, yet in »uch a manner that the
depreciation is imperceptible. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Sweating. A mode of diminishing the gold coin, practised chiefly by
the Jews, who corrode it with aqua regia. 1796. Wolcot, Peter
Pindar, 109. His each vile sixpence that the world hath cheated, And
his art that every guinea sweated. 1875. Jevons, Money and Mech.
of Exch., 115. No one now actually refuses any gold money in retail
business, so that the sweater, if he exists at all, has all the
opportunities he can desire. i8[?]. Thor Fredur, Sketches from Shady
Places [S. J. and C.J. By far the most scientific form of smashing is
that which is called sweating — the modern equivalent for the ruder
art of ' clipping,' so fully described in Macaulay's History. Here the
galvanic battery is brought into requisition, the metal being dissolved
equally from all the surfaces of the coin operated upon, and that,
too, without impairing the sharpness of ' image or superscription.'
Sufficient metal for the sweater's purpose being removed, the coin is
polished afresh. Sweat-box, subs. phr. The cell used for prisoners
while awaiting appearance before a magistrate. Sweater, subs.
(Winchester). — 1. A servant. Hence sweatgallery = fagging juniors.
See Sweat and Swot. 2. (athletic). — A thick coat (or flannel jersey)
worn by contestants after a finish until they can be rubbed down.
3quot. (Stock Exchange). — See 1871. Atkin, House Scraps
[Sweater]. A broker who works for such small commissions as to
prevent other brokers getting the business, whilst hardly being
profitable to himself. 4. See Sweat in all senses. Sweat- pits, subs.
pi. (old). — The arm-pits. c. 1709. Ward, Terrcefilius, v. 27. By
nature she is almost as rank as a Red Herring, yet . . . she so
Rectifies the Effluvia that arises from her Sweat-Pits, that she smells
as fragrant as a Perfumer 'sShop next Door to a Tallow-Chandler's.
Sweep, subs, (colloquial). — 1. A sweepstakes.
 Sweeps- Frill. 42 Sweetener. 2. (common). — A term of
contempt : e.g. ' What a sweep the man is ' ; ' You dirty sweep. ' TO
SWEEP THE BOARD, verb, phr. (orig. gaming : now general). — To
take everything ; to pocket all the stakes. Also to make a CLEAN
SWEEP = to CLEAN OUT (q-v.) ; to remove entirely. Also sweep = at
whist, taking all the tricks in the hand ; a slam (q.v.). 1680. Cotton
[Singer, Hist. Cards (1816), 346]. He who hath five cards of a SUit . .
. SWEEPS THE BOARD. 171 1. Pope, Rape of Lock, iii. 50. Spadillio
first . . . Led off two captive trumps, and swept the board. 1822.
Scott, Fort. Nigel, xxi. Tis the sitting gamester sweeps the board.
1868. Blunt, Re/. Church England, 316. The clean sweep which had
been made of so many ancient rights. 1869. Stowe, Oldtown, 163.
They [Indians] burnt thirty-two houses in Springfield . . . MADE A
CLEAN SWEEP On't. The Sweeps, subs. phr. (military).—The Rifle
Brigade. [Their facings from formation (1800) have been black.]
Sweep's- Frill, subs. phr. (common).— Beard and whiskers worn
round the chin, the rest of the face being clean shaven. 1892. Tit
Bits, 19 March, 421, 2. The sweep's frill would, I imagine, have
made the Antinous, or the Apollo Belvedere, look undignified and
slovenly. Sweet, adj. (old and thieves'). — 1. Gullible ; easily
deceived. 2. Expert, dextrous, clever : e.g. 1 Sweet's your hand '
(said of a clever thief). Hence, to sweeten a victim = to allay his
suspicions (Grose) ; to decoy, draw in, and bite (B. E. and Grose) :
see Sweetener. Sweetbread, subs. (old). — A bribe ; a tip {q.v.).
1692. Hacket, Williams, ii. 163. A few sweetbreads that I gave him
out of my purse. Sweetbriar, , subs, (venery). — The female pubic
hair : cf. Grove of Eglantine (Carew). See Fleece. Sweeten, subs.
(Old Cant).— A beggar. Also as verb = to give alms (Grose). Verb,
(cards : espec. poker). — To contribute to the pool. Hence
sweetening = money paid into the pool or kitty. 1896. Lillard, Poker
Stories, 191. Then along came a big jack pot that had been enlarged
by repeated sweetenings. TO SWEETEN AND PINCH, verb. phr.
(old).— See quot 1678. Four /or a Penny (Harl. Misc., iv. 147). A
main part of his [a bumbailiff's] office is to swear and bluster . . .
and cry, ' Confound us, why do we wait ? let us shop him ' ; whilst
the other meekly replies, 'Jack, be patient, it is a civil gentleman,
and I know will consider us ' ; which species of wheedling, in terms
of their art, is called sweeten and pinch. Sweetener, subs. (Old
Cant). — i. A GUINEA-DROPPER (q.V.) : [A coin is planted (q.v.), and
a likely passer-by is offered a share because present at the discovery
; to get change, ' drinks ' are suggested, and the victim goes out
fleeced].— (B. E. and Grose). 1699. Country Gentleman's Vade
Mecum, 97. Guinea dropping or sweetning is a paultry little cheat
that was recommended to the world about thirty years ago by a
memorable gentleman that has since had the misfortune to be taken
off, I mean hang'd, for a misdemeanour upon the highway.
 Sweetheart. 43 Sweet-pea. 2. (auctioneers'). — A runnerup
(q.v.) of prices; a BONNET (q.V.). 3. (common). — In pi. = the lips.
TO FAKE THE SWEETENERS = to kiss. 4. (old). — ' One who decoys
persons to game : (Bailey). Also SWEETEN, verb (B. E. and Grose) =
to decoy, to draw in. Sweetheart, etc., subs, (old colloquial and
literary). — 1. A mistress, pour le bon motif ; and (2) see quots. Also
variants : sweet, SWEETING, SWEETKINS, SWEETLIPS, etc. Also
sweetkin, adj. = delicate, dainty; and sweet on = in love with ;
partial to. c. 1534. Milner ofAbington [Hazlitt. Early Pop. Poet., lii.
113]. Now, I pray you, my lemman free, A gowne cloath then buie
you me . . . By Jesu, he saide, my sweeting, I have but three
shylling. 1552. Huloet, Abecdarium, s.v. Darlynge, a wanton terme
used in veneriall speach, as be these : honycombe, pyggisnye,
swetehert, true love. 1593. Nashe, Choise of Valentynes, 89. Sweete
heart, . . ., but thy self, true lover I haue none . . . With that she
wanton faints, and falle's vpon hir bedd. c. 1696. B. E., Diet. Cant.
Crew . . . Tobe sweet on, cant, to coakse, wheedle, entice or allure.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Sweet-Heart ... a girl's lover or a
man's mistress. Ibid. s.v. Sweetners . . . To be sweet upon ; to coax,
wheedle, court or allure. He seemed sweet upon that wench ; he
seemed to court that girl. 1823. Bee, Diet. Tur/} s.v. Sweet (to be)—
to talk kind, conciliating to the other sex. 1865. Dickens, Mutual
Friend, iv. 15. Missis is sweet enough on you, Master, to sell herself
up, slap, to get you out of trouble. 1895. Opjpenheim, Peer and the
Woman, 11. ii. I don't know that we should have stopped so long,
only Brown's rather sweet on the place. Sweetheart and bag
pudding ! phr. (old: Ray).— Said of a girl got with child. 1608. Day,
Humour out of Breath, ii. 1. Farewell, sweet heart.— God a mercy,
bag-pudding. Sweeties, subs. pi. (common).— Sweetmeats: also
sweet- stuff. d. 1758. Ramsay, Poems, 11. 547. Sweeties to bestow
on lasses. 1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., 1. 216. The sweet-stuff
maker (I never heard them called confectioners) bought his 'paper'
at the stationer's, or the old book-shops. 1863. Thackeray,
Roundabout Papers, x. Instead of finding bonbons or sweeties in the
packets which we pluck off the boughs, we find enclosed Mr.
Carnifex's review of the quarter's meat. Sweet-lips, subs. phr.
(common). — 1. An epicure ; a glutton. 2. See Sweetheart. Sweet-
meat, subs. phr. (venery). — 1. The penis : see Prick. Also (2) a kept
mistress of tender years. Sweet meat must have sour sauce, phr.
(old). — See quot. It. Se a mangiate le candele ora caga gli stoppini.
1726. Bailey, Eng. Diet. s.v. Sweet . . . After sweet meat comes sour
sauce ... an excellent monition to temperance and sobriety. Sweet-
pea, subs, (women's). — Urination : spec, in the open air. Hence, to
plant (or do) a sweet pea = to piss {q.v.) : cf. to pluck a rose. Also in
Conundrums : ' What's the sweetest flower in the nursery ? ' or 1
What flower does a woman like after a long walk ? ' Ans. A sweet-
pea.
 Sweet-scented Hole. 44 Swell. Sweet-scented Hole, subs.
phr. (venery). — The female pudendum : see Monosyllable. 1690.
Motteux, Rabelais, v. xxx. With his nervous horn he removed all the
infection that might be lurking in some blind cranny of the . . .
sweet-scented hole. Sweet-tooth, subs. phr. (colloquial).— A liking
for sweet things or sweetmeats. Swell, subs. (old). — 1. See quots.
1785 and 1890. Hence, as adj. (also swellish) = (1) elegant, stylish,
dandified ; and (2) firstrate, TIP-TOP (o.v.). Also derivatives and
combinations such as swelldom = the world of fashion; to live in
Swellstreet = to reside in the West End ; a swell hung in chains =a
bejewelled man or woman ; A HOWLING SWELL (see HOWLing) ;
swell-head (or BLOCK) = a vain coxcomb (Amer.). 1785. Grose, Vulg.
Tongue, s.v. Swell, a gentleman ; but any well-dressed person is
emphatically termed a swell, or a rank swell. A family man who
appears to have plenty of money, and makes a genteel figure, is said
by his associates to be in Swell street. Any thing remarkable for its
beauty or elegance, is called a swell article ; so a swell crib is a
genteel house ; a swell mollisher, an elegantly-dressed woman, etc.
Sometimes, in alluding to a particular gentleman, whose name is not
requisite, he is styled, the swell, meaning the person who is the
object of your discourse, or attention ; and whether he is called the
swell, the cove, or the gory, is immaterial, as in the following (in
addition to many other) examples : — I was turned up at
Chinastreet, because the swell would not appear ; meaning, of
course, the prosecutor : again, speaking of a person whom you were
on the point of robbing, but who has taken the alarm, and is
therefore on his guard, you will say to your pall, It's of no use, the
cove is as down as a hammer ; or, We may as well stow it, the
gory's leary. 181 1. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. Cadge the swells, beg
of the gentlemen. 1819. Moore, Tom Crib's Memorial. . . . What
madness could impel So rum a flat to face so prime a swell. 1823.
Bee, Diet. Turf, s.v. Nob. A . . . nob . . . differs from swell, inasmuch
as the latter makes a show of his finery ; whereas the nob, relying
upon intrinsic worth, or bona-fide property, or intellectual ability, is
clad in plainness. 1823. Byron, Don Juan, xi. 17. Poor Tom was once
a kiddy upon town, A thorough varmint and a real swell. Ibid., xi. 19.
So prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing. 1835. Hook, Gilbert
Gurney, in. ii. At the ball, my eldest girl danced with the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, and found him very chatty, though a bit of
a swell. 1840-45. Barham, I ngoldsby Legends (1862), 70. No ! no !
— The Abbey may do very well For a feudal nob, or poetical 1
SWELL.' 1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., 1. 341. Not one swell in a
score would view it in any light than a ream concern. 1854.
Thackeray [Leech's Pictures in^ Quarterly Review, No. 191].
Corinthian, it appears, was the phrase applied to men of fashion and
ton . . . they were the brilliant predecessors of the swell of the
present period. Ibid. (1855), Newcomes, xliii. This isn't the moment,
when all swelldom is at her feet, for me to come forward. Ibid.
(1862), Philip, xxiii. The lady in the swell carriage, the mother of the
young swell with the flower in his buttonhole. c. 1864. Vance,
Chickaleary Cove. My tailor serves you well, from a perger to a
SWELL. 1877. Five Years' Penal Servitude, iii. 244. It was the swell's
russia — a russia, you know, is a pocket-book. 1888. Runciman,
Chequers, 38. She's a screamer, she's a real swell. 1890. T. R.
Oliphant, Eton College. It is very hard to define exactly what is
meant by a swell at Eton ; but it usually implies a boy who, brought
into notice either by athletic prowess or scholarship, or high standing
in the school, by this means becomes acquainted with the leading
members of the school, and is found on acquaintance to develop
considerable social qualities, which make him hand and glove with
all the Eton magnates.
 Swell-head. 45 Swig. 1897. Marshall, Pomes, 41. The
merest fool could tell that the lady was a SWELL. 1900. Boothby,
Maker of Nations, ix. I'm no end of a swell at politics. 2.
(Winchester). — In pi. = Sunday Services ; Saints' days, etc. : when
surplices are worn. Verb (Winchester). — To bathe; 'to swill.' Swell-
head, subs. phr. (common).—!. A drunken man: see Lushington. 2.
See Swell and Swollen head. Swell- mobsman, subs. phr. (common).
— A well-dressed pickpocket. Hence swell-mob. 1843. Punch, iv.
129. Rich Charities the Chapel throng, The swell mob they are there,
The Bishop's sermon is not long, The fogle-hunter ware ! 1851-61.
Mayhew, Lond. Lab., 11. 417. Swell-mobsmen, and thieves, and
housebreakers, and the like o' that ere. 1856. Quarterly Rev., June,
182. The swell mobsman's eye is for ever wandering in search of his
prey. c. i860. Dickens, Three Detective Anecdotes, ii. Some of the
swell mob . . . kidded us. 1866. Hotten, Slang Diet., s.v. Public
patterers, swell mobsmen who pretend to be Dissenting preachers,
and harangue in the open air to attract a crowd for their
confederates to rob. Swelled- nose, subs. phr. (old). — 111 temper. '
Does your nose swell (or itch) at that ? .'= ' Are you riled?' Swell-
nose, subs. phr. (old).— Strong ale ; STINGO {q.v.). 1515. De
Generibus Ebriosorum, etc. [Hodgkin, Notes and Queries, 3 S. vii.
163. In this treatise occurs names of fancy drinks ... I select a few of
the most presentable] slip-slop . . . raise-head . . . SWELL-NOSE,
S'welp, in//, (common). — ' So help ' : usually in the adjurations, '
S'WELP ME BOB,' or ' S'WELP MY taters ' (bob, greens, etc. ). 1837.
Barham, Ingolds. Leg. {Dead Drummer). For his jaw-work would
never, I'm sure, s'elp me bob, Have come for to go for to do sich a
job ! c. 1850. Old Rhyme. S'elp me bob, My mother's a snob, My
father takes in washin'. 1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., iii. 144.
They'll say, too, s'elp my greens ! and ' Upon my word and say so.'
1880. Jas. Payn, Confid. Agent, xix. ' Not another word will I say,
s'help me bob.' 1888. Runciman, Chequers, 86. I'll pay it back, s'elp
me Gord. 1891. Lie. Vict. Gaz., 13 Jan. Well, s'elp me greens ... if
you ar'n't the greatest treat I ever did meet. 1891. Chevalier, Mrs
'Enery 'Awkins. Selp me Bob, I'm crazy, Liza, you're a daisy. 1893.
Emerson, Signor Lippo, xiv. SO HELP MY BLESSED TATER if this isn't
our old Jose. 1897. Marshall, Pomes, 30. If I wasn't sich a lidy, s'elp
me bob, I'd give the bloomin' magistrate a job. 1899. Whiteing, John
St., vi. Swelp me lucky, I ain't tellin yer no lie. Swift, subs, (printers').
— A quickworking compositor (Savage, 1 84 1, Diet.). Swig, subs,
(colloquial). — A deep draught: also as verb = to drink heartily. (B.
E. and Grose) ; to pull hard {q.v.) Hence swiggled = drunk: see
Screwed. 1623. Mabbe, Spanish Rogue, (1630), ii. 208. [Oliphant,
New Eng., ii. 82. Bale's swink (bibere) becomes swigge.] 1627.
Middleton and Rowley, Changeling, iv. 2. But one swig more, sweet
madam. c. 1650. Roxburgh Ballads [Brit. Mus., C. 20, f. 8. 236], ?
Jolly Welsh Woman.' Now while she had gotten the jugg at her
snout, . . . Hur gave it a tug, till hur swigg'd it half out.