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▪ I. swizzle, n.1 slang or colloq.|ˈswɪz(ə)l|
[Origin unknown. Cf. switchel.]
A name for various compounded intoxicating drinks; sometimes vaguely used for intoxicating drink in general.
1813P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 68 The boys..finished the evening with some prime grub, swizzle, and singing. 1843Le Fevre Life Trav. Phys. III. iii. i. 86 A glass of swizzle, the most salubrious beverage in hot weather. 1848Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xlv. 304 ‘What sort of swizzle do you keep here?’ ‘Swizzle, sir?—yes, sir,’ answered the waiter, not exactly knowing what to reply. ‘Drink, I mean,’ the other continued; ‘lush!—will that do?’ 1879J. W. Boddam-Whetham Roraima, etc. 129 A certain institution of Demerara known as ‘swizzles’... The exact receipt for a swizzle I cannot give. 1899C. H. Robinson in World Wide Mag. July, After partaking of the inevitable brandy cocktail or ‘swizzle’ as it is called in the West Indies.
▪ II. swizzle, n.2 slang (chiefly Schoolchildren's).|ˈswɪz(ə)l|
[Prob. altered f. swindle n.3]
= swizz.
1913A. H. Dawson Dict. Eng. Slang & Colloquialisms 139 Swizzle. (1) Any sort of drink. (2) A swindle, fraud. Also a verb in both senses. 1931C. Mackenzie Buttercups & Daisies v. 59 ‘What a swizzle you can't eat rats,’ Roger sighed. Ibid. xviii. 229 What a swizzle it's so late. 1950A. Buckeridge Jennings goes to School i. 12 It was a rotten swizzle, sir, because we flew through low cloud and we couldn't see a thing. a1976A. Christie Autobiogr. (1977) ix. v. 476 This place is awful, Mother... As for those bathrooms,..it's an absolute swizzle! They're never used.
▪ III. ˈswizzle, v. slang or colloq. and dial.
[f. swizzle n.1]
1. intr. To drink to excess, swig, tipple. Hence ˈswizzled ppl. a., drunk, ‘sozzled’; influenced or induced by heavy drinking.
1843Knickerbocker XXII. 366 We were never ‘groggy’,..‘swizzled’ or ‘tight’, but once. 1847Halliwell, Swizzle..to drink, or swill. 1888Texas Siftings 14 Jan. 8/2 Old Shep, with a swizzled intuition, would darkly imagine that the singers were alluding to his calcium nose. 1903McNeill Egregious English 155 There he gorges and swizzles till the warning bell advises him of the departure of his train. 1918G. Frankau One of Them ix. 65 Some quaff th'embittered cocktail, or the rum Whose swizzled headaches heavy on to-morrow weigh. 1934Amer. Spectator July 2/3 The editors of The American Spectator got somewhat swizzled one night last week and didn't feel so good the next day.
2. trans. To stir with a swizzle-stick.
1859Trollope West Indies iii. (1860) 46 A long bitter duly swizzled is your true West Indian syren. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 151 The whole is mixed with powdered ice, and stirred or ‘swizzled’ until it froths well. |