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swaip
English
Etymology
Compare sweep.
Verb
swaip (third-person singular simple present swaips, present participle swaiping, simple past and past participle swaiped)
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To walk proudly; to sweep along.
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Anagrams
- ISWAP, WASPI, Waspi
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swamp
English
Alternative forms
- swomp (obsolete)
Etymology
From a fusion of Middle English swam (“swamp, muddy pool, bog, marsh", also "fungus, mushroom”), from Old English swamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), and Middle English sompe (“marsh, morass”), from Middle Dutch somp, sump (“marsh, swamp”), or Middle Low German sump (“marsh, swamp”), from Old Saxon *sump (“swamp, marsh”); all from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz. Cognate with Dutch zwamp (“swamp, marsh, fen”), Middle Low German swamp (“sponge, mushroom”), Dutch zomp (“swamp, lake, marshy place”), German Low German Sump (“swamp, bog,marsh”), German Sumpf (“swamp”), Swedish sump (“swamp”). Related also to Dutch zwam (“fungus, punk, tinder”), German Schwamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Swedish svamp (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Icelandic svampur, sveppur (“fungus”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (swumsl, “a ditch”). Related to sump, swim.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sw?mp/
- (US) IPA(key): /sw?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
swamp (plural swamps)
- A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
- A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
- (figuratively) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: swampu
- ? Dutch: zwamp
Translations
See also
- bog
- marsh
- moor
Verb
swamp (third-person singular simple present swamps, present participle swamping, simple past and past participle swamped)
- To drench or fill with water.
- To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- 2006, New York Times,
- Mr. Spitzer’s defeat of his Democratic opponent ... ended a primary season in which Hillary Rodham Clinton swamped an antiwar challenger for renomination to the Senate.
- 2006, New York Times,
- (figuratively) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People
- The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
- c. 1835, William Hamilton, "Metaphysics and Moral Science", in Edinburgh Review
- Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory […]
- 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People
Translations
Anagrams
- wamps
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