swizz
/swɪz
/(also swiz)
noun [usually in singular] British informal
A thing that is disappointing or represents a mild swindle: what a swizz!...
- He may have made his name by insisting on good value for consumers, but his latest TV schtick is fast emerging as a bit of a swizz.
- The motoring lobby had been protesting, like so many schoolboys banned from baking their conkers, that concealed speed cameras were a rotten swizz.
- Perhaps this is a swizz, or perhaps it saves diehard fans paying a tenner for three second-rate filler tracks.
Origin
Early 20th century: abbreviation of swizzle2.
Rhymes
- West Palm Beach
- West Papua
- Westphalia
- Westphalian
- Westphalia, Treaty of
- westphalite
- West Point
- West Point Academy
- West Pointer
- Westpolitik
- Westport
- West Quoddy Head
- Westralia
- heritability
- heritable
- heritably
- heritage
- heritage center
- heritage centre
- heritage coast
- heritage tourism
- heritage tourist
- heritage trail
- heritor
- herky-jerky