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swiggle, v. rare.|ˈswɪg(ə)l|
Also 7 swigle.
[app. frequent. of swig v.3; cf. squiggle v.]
†1. trans. To sprinkle. Obs. rare—1.
1683Pettus Fleta Min. i. (1686) 73 Put ground Bone-Ashes in it, and swigle or strew it over the test.
2. intr. (or trans. with cogn. obj.) To wriggle.
1837Haliburton Clockm. Ser. i. xxii. 230 When he was in full rig a swigglin away at the top of his gait. 1840Ibid. Ser. iii. xi. (1848) 86 With that he swiggled his way thro' the crowd, to the counter. 1907J. M. Synge Playboy II. 39 To think of you swaying and swiggling at the butt of a rope.
3. trans. To shake about (liquid in a vessel, or something in a liquid). Also with vessel (spec. a beer glass) as obj. dial.
1943Pub & People (Mass Observation) vi. 185 Some people have a habit of what may be called ‘swiggling’ their glasses, which consists in moving them round and round in circles, either on the bar counter or table top, or up in the air.
Hence ˈswiggling vbl. n.
1948L. A. G. Strong Trevannion xiii. 229 There was a wild splashing; Trevannion, craning forward, saw the gleam of a silver belly, and heard a madly energised swiggling and slithering. 1971Weekly Guardian 2 Jan. 19/3 Such categories of pub behaviour as ‘Swiggling’—the habit of moving a beer glass round and round between sips. |