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swizzle

Noun, Verb (transitive)

swiz=zle

WORDNET DICTIONARY

swizzle(n = noun.food) Array - any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice; Array

swizzle, v. t.

To drink; to swill. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]

swizzle, n.

Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally. [1913 Webster]

swizzle, n. & v. colloq.
--n. a mixed alcoholic drink esp. of rum or gin and bitters made frothy.
--v.tr. stir with a swizzle-stick.

Idiom

swizzle-stick a stick used for frothing or flattening drinks.

swizzle, n. Brit. colloq. = SWIZZ.

Etymology

20th c.: prob. alt. of SWINDLE

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