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- verb UK (northern dialect) To
splutter ; toguzzle - verb UK To
fritter away
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Examples
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Besides, the sea being their universal bathing-place, in which they swattle like fish, and little water, almost none, being required for cooking purposes, and none whatever for washing clothes, the lack of fresh-springing water was not the dreadful trial to them that it would be to us.
The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals John Gibson Paton 1865
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