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swab
English
Etymology
Mid 17th century (in the sense 'mop for cleaning the decks'): back-formation from Middle English swabber (“sailor detailed to swab decks”), from Middle Dutch zwabber, from a Germanic base meaning 'splash' or 'sway', also found as nautical German Schwabber and Volga German Schwabber, a general term for cleaning tissues.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sw?b, IPA(key): /sw?b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Noun
swab (plural swabs)
- (medicine) A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
- A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
- A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
- A mop, especially on a ship.
- (slang) A sailor; a swabby.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, ch. 25:
- As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, ch. 25:
- (slang) A naval officer's epaulet.
Synonyms
- (sailor): swabby
Translations
Verb
swab (third-person singular simple present swabs, present participle swabbing, simple past and past participle swabbed)
- (transitive) To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.
Translations
Anagrams
- AWBs, wabs
Egyptian
Romanization
swab
- Manuel de Codage transliteration of sw?b.
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sweb
English
Alternative forms
- swab
Etymology
From Middle English swebben (“to sleep, swoon”), from Old English swebban (“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), from Proto-Germanic *swabjan?, *sw?bijan? (“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- (“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja (“to sleep”), Latin s?pi? (“put to sleep, lull”, verb). Related to sweven.
Verb
sweb (third-person singular simple present swebs, present participle swebbing, simple past and past participle swebbed)
- (intransitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England) To swoon; faint.
Noun
sweb (plural swebs)
- (Britain dialectal, Northern England) A swoon.
Derived terms
- swebby
Anagrams
- EBWs, WBEs, webs
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