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swag
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /swæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
From Middle English *swaggen, swagen, swoggen, probably from Old Norse sveggja (“to swing, sway”). Compare dialectal Norwegian svaga (“to sway, swing, stagger”).
Verb
swag (third-person singular simple present swags, present participle swagging, simple past and past participle swagged)
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) sway.
- Synonyms: sway, lurch
- (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)
- 1530, John Palsgrave, L'esclarcissement de la langue francoyse
- I swagge as a fatte persos belly swaggeth as he goth.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
- (transitive) To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
- 1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting (page 19)
- Hooks come with screws for use in plaster or wood and toggles for use in wallboard. One hook should be sufficient to swag a lamp from a ceiling outlet.
- 1991, Kalton C. Lahue, Cheryl Smith, Interior Lighting (page 19)
Noun
swag (plural swags)
- (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:
- He looked in bewilderment at number 24, the final house with its regalia of stucco swags and bows.
- 2005, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 438:
- A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects.
- 1902, D. G. Simmons, "The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases", The American Practitioner and News, 34: 182.
- Whenever the muddy water would accumulate in the swag the water from the well in question would become muddy […] After the water in the swag had all disappeared through the sink-hole the well water would again become clear.
- 1902, D. G. Simmons, "The Influence of Contaminated Water in the Development of Diseases", The American Practitioner and News, 34: 182.
Derived terms
- swagger
Etymology 2
Clipping of swagger. A common pseudo-etymology is the derivation as acronym for “secretly we are gay”, or other unlikely phrases.
Noun
swag (uncountable)
- (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
- 2009, Mark Anthony Archer, Exile, page 119
- Now this dude got swag, and he was pushing up on me but, it wasn't like we was kicking it or anything!
- 2009, Mark Anthony Archer, Exile, page 119
Derived terms
- swag it out
Etymology 3
From 18th c. British thieves' slang.
Noun
swag (plural swags)
- (obsolete, thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. [18th c.]
- Synonym: stock
- (thieves' cant, uncountable) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle. [18th c.]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:booty
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter 19:
- “It?s all arranged about bringing off the swag, is it?” asked the Jew. Sikes nodded.
- 1971 November 22, Frank E. Emerson, “They Can Get It For You BETTER Than Wholesale”, New York Magazine, page 38
- He was on his way to call on other dealers to check out their swag and to see if he could trade away some of his leftover odds and ends.
- (uncountable) Handouts, freebies, or giveaways, such as those handed out at conventions. [late 20th c.]
- (countable, Australia, dated) The possessions of a bushman or itinerant worker, tied up in a blanket and carried over the shoulder, sometimes attached to a stick.
- (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
- 2010 August 31, "Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener", The New Zealand Herald:
- New Zealand wasted a swag of chances to lose their opening women?s hockey World Cup match.
- 2010 August 31, "Hockey: Black Sticks lose World Cup opener", The New Zealand Herald:
Derived terms
- swagful, swagless
- (shop): rum swag, swag barrow
- (stolen goods): swag bag, swag chovey bloke, swagsman (“fence”)
- (itinerant's belongings): swagman
Verb
swag (third-person singular simple present swags, present participle swagging, simple past and past participle swagged)
- (Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket). [From 1850s.]
- 1880, James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia, page 259,
- He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.
- 1976, Pembroke Arts Club, The Anglo-Welsh Review, page 158,
- That such a man was swagging in the Victoria Bush at the age of fifty-one requires explanation.
- 2006, Inga Clendinnen, The History Question: Who Owns the Past?, Quarterly Essay, Issue 23, page 3,
- The plot is straightforward. A swagman is settling down by a billabong after a hard day?s swagging.
- 2011, Penelope Debelle, Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston QC, page 21,
- Over the Christmas of 1939, just three months after Britain and Australia had declared war on Germany, they went swagging together for a week and slept out under the stars in the Adelaide Hills, talking, walking and reading.
- 1880, James Coutts Crawford, Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia, page 259,
- To transport stolen goods.
Derived terms
- swaggie
- swagman
- swag it
Translations
Etymology 4
Noun
swag (plural swags)
- Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
- I can take a swag at the answer, but it may not be right.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- AWGs, GWAS, WAGs, wags
Old Frisian
Etymology
From a word referring to the fence around a pasture; cf. Old Norse sveigr (“supple branch, headkerchief”), ultimately from a root meaning to bend or twist.
Noun
sw?g f
- pasture
Descendants
- Dutch: Zwaag
- Frisian: sweach, swaech
Further reading
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010) , “zwaag”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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swad
English
Alternative forms
- swod
Etymology
Related to swaddle?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sw?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
swad (plural swads)
- A bunch, clump, mass
- (obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
- (obsolete) A boor, lout.
- 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John, scene 2
- Sham’st thou not coistrel, loathsome dunghill swad.
- 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub
- There was one busy fellow was their leader, / A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself.
- 1588, Robert Greene, Perimedes
- Country swains, and silly swads.
- 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John, scene 2
- (mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
- 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia
- Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell — thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.
- 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia
References
Synonyms
- (bunch, clump): bunch, clump, mass
References
- WordNet 3.0 (2006, Princeton University); “swad” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
- AWDS, AWDs, DAWs, Daws, WASD, daws, wads
Middle English
Noun
swad
- Alternative form of swathe (“swath”)
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