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Swelter sb. World English Historical Dictionary

Swelter 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. Swelter sb. [f. next.] A sweltering condition. Also in phr. (slang) to do a swelter, to perspire.

1 1851.  Illustr. Lond. News, 23 Aug., 234/3. Perspiring multitudes who stand the swelter with a pluck which would do honour to niggers.

2 1884.  Punch, 11 Oct., 180/1. So I let them as liked do a swelter.

3   ¶  Equivalent to sweltered venom (see SWELTERED 1), or confused with WELTER = slough.

4 1894.  Crockett, Mad Sir Uchtred, 156. He skimmed the green swelter of the bottomless shaking bogs.

5 1914.  J. K. Graham, Anno Domini, 138. Knowledge of falsehood dug out of the swelter of the pit.

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