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Sweepy sb. World English Historical Dictionary

Sweepy sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Sweepy sb. dial. Also 8 s.w. dial. zweepy. [? f. sweep-chimney (SWEEP- 2) + -Y dim. suffix. (Slightly earlier than SWEEP sb. 32; cf. SWEETIE.)] A chimney-sweep or his boy.

1 1798.  T. Morton, Speed the Plough, I. ii. (1800), 10. Little zweepy do tell I he can zee a bit out from the top of the chimbley.

2 1825–80.  Jamieson, Sweepie, a chimney sweeper, Aberd.

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