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English

Alternative forms

• swatchel
• swozzle

Etymology

From swatchel, probably from German schwätzeln, from schwatzen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw?z(?)l/

Noun

swazzle (plural swazzles)

1. A device to change the voice to make it more raspy, used in Punch and Judy performances

English

Etymology

Unknown etymology, 1813. Original sense “alcoholic drink”, possibly a variant of switchel (“a drink of molasses and water, often mixed with rum”), attested 1790, itself of uncertain origin. Possibly influenced by fizz.

In verb sense “to stir”, from swizzle stick (“stick for stirring alcoholic drinks”), itself attested 1859.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw?z?l/
• Rhymes: -?z?l

Noun

swizzle (countable and uncountable, plural swizzles)

1. Any of various kinds of alcoholic drink.
2. Alternative form of switchel (“drink based on water and vinegar”)

Derived terms

• swizzle stick

See also

• cocktail

Verb

swizzle (third-person singular simple present swizzles, present participle swizzling, simple past and past participle swizzled)

1. To stir or mix.

   She swizzled the milk into her coffee.

2. (computing) To permute bits, or elements of a vector.
3. (computing, programming, transitive) To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.
4. To drink; to swill.

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Antonyms

• (convert symbols to pointers): unswizzle

References