different between swizzle vs twizzle

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Antonyms

• (convert symbols to pointers): unswizzle

References

English

Etymology

Alteration of *twissel (“to double”), from twissel (“double, twofold”). More at twissel.

Noun

twizzle (plural twizzles)

1. A turning, twisting or spinning motion.
2. (skating) A figure skating maneuver that is a surface spin that travels across the ice.

Translations

See also

• (skating): twizzle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ; Twizzles on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Verb

twizzle (third-person singular simple present twizzles, present participle twizzling, simple past and past participle twizzled)

1. To rotate, spin or twirl.
2. (skating) To perform the twizzle maneuver.