Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various tall mixed drinks usually made with rum.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To drink habitually and to excess; swill.
- n. One of various differently compounded drinks.
Wiktionary
- n. Various kinds of alcoholic drinks.
- v. To stir or mix.
- v. computing To permute bits.
- v. computing, programming, transitive To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To drink; to swill.
- n. Prov. Eng. Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice
Etymologies
- 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. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Hotel Angelini, sipping his "swizzle" and studiously watching the”
“I use those skinny chocolate mint sticks as swizzle sticks.”
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“It looks like a swizzle stick decorated with a bouffant that belongs on the edge of a drink.”
“Vodka from a small carafe is then poured into the vessel and stirred with a piece of lemongrass, its ends splintered to serve as a swizzle stick.”
“It's as if the little snippets of these lives which you can bet were pitched as "vignettes" had a greater purpose than to swizzle our brains into believing that flying is anything but tediously mundane.”
“It came with lots of fresh mint, a female silhouette shaped swizzle stick and a big stalk of sugar cane.”
“The drink recipe and ingredients or tools to make your specialty cocktail mojito muddlers, margarita salt, swizzle sticks, etc.”
“This tiny catfish can be the size of a cocktail swizzle stick until in swims in a big fish's gill and gorges on blood.”
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“Mimi Ritzen Crawford for The Wall Street Journal Cocktails are balanced and elegant, like the pacific swizzle, shown here, made with white rum infused with rosehip, lime juice, passion fruit and lemongrass and hibiscus tea.”
“To make one isn't impossible, it just requires copious amounts of crushed ice (made with a mallet and a Lewis bag), fresh mint, bonded bourbon (the lower proof stuff won't hold up), a swizzle stick, a sterling silver cup and, most importantly, the thing that you can't buy: skill.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘swizzle’.
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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Origin Unknown
Words listed as "origin unknown."
spang, nincompoop, lollapalooza, jive, mosey, mull, lush, dog, swizzle, swizzle stick, wonk, hootchy-kootchy and 5 more...
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Favorite Words
symbologist, articulate, sushi, chinchilla, flagrant, cosmic, perforate, alacrity, gooseflesh, xenophobic, bamboozle, squirrel and 90 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2434 more... -
summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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Mélange
doggerel, odsbodkins, platitudinous, ennui, strappleberry, stygian, inchoate, incipient, deleterious, gnarled, troglodyte, interlocutor and 96 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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If Snoop Dogg made a list
Fo' shizzle my chizzle, here's a lizzle!
sizzle, swizz, swizzle, twizzle, whizz, wrizzle, bedrizzle, bizz, crizzle, dizz, drizzle, hizz and 14 more...
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Liquor is Quicker
Fermented and distilled.
usquebaugh, whisky, malt whisky, grain whisky, bourbon, scotch, gin, vodka, brandy, cognac, Armagnac, Pisco and 73 more...
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squigee's Words
numismatist, oolite, cornichon, flit, penultimate, plutocracy, plumbic, oblate, seismic, penury, lapidary, aerie and 18 more...
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swizzle's Words
quixotic, flux, serendipity, renaissance, sprezzatura, lucid, influx, myriad, craft, swizzle, dystopia, occident and 25 more...
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Endearing bits of speech
Words to care for and to keep, mostly ones I've garnered from literature.
nonpareil, triptych, synaesthesia, errata, dissonance, phoneme, hinterland, concordance, ersatz, sinuous, genre, wanderlust and 18 more...
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That Wonky Indian English
At the beginning of "The Life of Pi," the narrator says, "they speak a funny English in India. They like words like ‘bamboozle'!
If anyone knows any funny English words used in India...bamboozle, hullabaloo, beelzebub, bungle, hornswoggle, bespangled, bupkis, hubbub, wazoo, wishy-washy, cahoots, mumpsimus and 23 more...
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bentleyanne's Words
momtini, bershon, curmudgeon, cattywampus, swizzle, scrimshaw, rad, slim, loquacious, flank, baguette, chou and 40 more...
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Double zee
fizzle, dazzle, gizzard, jazz, mozzarella, nozzle, puzzle, sizzle, buzz, dizzy, fizzy, fizz and 19 more...
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