| 释义 |
swizz slang.|swɪz|
Also swiz.
[Shortened f. swizzle n.2]
A disappointment or ‘swindle.’ Freq. in the exclamation ‘What a swizz!’
1915W. Owen Let. 19 Mar. (1967) 328 What a swizz about Harold! 1921V. Brittain Let. Nov. in Testament of Youth (1933) x. 513 What a swiz for all the people who swore that there was nothing in it between Ramage and Cathleen Nesbitt. 1932G. Clark Mistress ii. v. 186 They want us to go lunch. Just round the corner here... Bit of a swiz, isn't it? I did my best to get out of it. 1937S. Smith Good Time was had by All 38 The people say that spiritism is a joke and a swizz. 1959R. Fuller Ruined Boys ii. ix. 144 He's given him not out. What a sodding swiz. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 208 We were drinking cheerfully when up came that phrase Quintin Hogg is always using: ‘Really, it's only a swizz.’
Hence as v. trans., to trick by swindling, to subject to disappointment (in quot., pass.).
1961H. & M. Williams Irregular Verb to Love in J. C. Trewin Plays of Year XXIII. 84, I..felt I'd been swizzed—not just of sex though that was part of it. |