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单词 swabble
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swabblev.

/ˈswɒb(ə)l/
Forms: Also Middle English swable.
Etymology: < swab v.1 + -le suffix. Compare Low German swabbeln to be agitated, to sway about, reel, make the sound of splashing water, West Flemish swabbelen, swobbelen to draw backwards and forwards in water, to make the noise characteristic of this action; so German schwappeln in similar senses; also Swedish svabel mop, svabla to mop.
dialect.
1. intransitive. To sway about.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > reel, stagger, or sway unsteadily
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wheel1832
swig1833
wavel1896
14.. Promptorium Parvulorum 481/2 Swablynge, or swaggynge (A. swabbyng).
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Swabble, to reel about.
2. intransitive. To make a noise like that of water moved about.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > sound of water in motion
wash1842
swabble1848
1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words Swabble v., to vibrate with a noise, like liquids in a bottle: ‘I heard the water swabble in her chest’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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