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单词 sweepy
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sweepyn.

/ˈswiːpi/
Forms: Also 1700s south-western dialect zweepy.
Etymology: ? < sweep-chimney n. at sweep- comb. form 2 + -y suffix6. (Slightly earlier than sweep n. 33; compare sweetie n.)
dialect.
A chimney-sweep or his boy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > cleaning chimneys > one who
chimney-sweeper?1518
sweep-chimney1657
lily-white1699
chimney-sweep1709
sooterkin1795
sweepy1798
sweep1812
ramoneura1859
chummy1860
chimney-cleanser1905
chimney-cleaner1906
fluonomist1946
1798 T. Morton Speed the Plough (1800) i. ii. 10 Little zweepy do tell I he can zee a bit out from the top of the chimbley.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Sweep, a chimney sweeper, S.; also Sweepie, Aberd.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

sweepyadj.

/ˈswiːpi/
Etymology: < sweep n. or sweep v. + -y suffix1.
Chiefly poetic.
Characterized by sweeping movement or form; sweeping.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > continuously > and rapidly or forcibly
sweeping1610
sweepy1693
1693 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Fable Acis, Polyphemus & Galatea in Examen Poeticum 92 The sweepy weight Of Ews that sink beneath the Milky fraight.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 68 The King of Floods..rolling onward, with a sweepy Sway, Bore Houses, Herds, and lab'ring Hinds away. View more context for this quotation
1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace 116 Bars, Bolts, and brazen Hinges..tumbl'd down before the sweepy Stroke.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 644 The Nile, who from the secret source Of Jove's high seat descends with sweepy force.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 69 Hail furious flew, and sweepy light'ning shone.
1821 J. Baillie Columbus in Metrical Legends xvi Groves, where each dome of sweepy leaves In air of morning gently heaves.
1821 T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 184 His lines are flowing and sweepy.
1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve viii. 26 I saw the back of Him, no more... No face: only the sight Of a sweepy Garment, vast and white.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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