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Swipe. World English Historical Dictionary

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Swipe. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Swipe subs. (old: now colloquial).—1.  A blow delivered with the full length of the arm. As verb = to DRIVE (q.v.); to bang. Hence SWIPER = a hard hitter, a SLOGGER (q.v.), a KNOCKER-OUT (q.v.). At Harrow = to birch.

1   c. 1200.  The Legend of St. Katherine of Alexandria [E.E.T.S.], 2452. SWIPTE hire of þat heaued.

2   1857.  T. HUGHES, Tom Brown’s School-days, II. viii. Jack Raggles, the long-stop, toughest and burliest of boys, commonly called SWIPER Jack…. The first ball of the over, Jack steps out and meets, SWIPING with all his force.

3   1886.  The Field, 4 Sept. In driving for Tel-el-Kebir, Kirk had a long SWIPE off the tee.

4   1901.  Free Lance, 9 March, 558, 2. I am indebted to Mr. Gilbert Jessop, the well-known bowler and SWIPER (I hope the word has not gone out), for the excellent and temperate article which he contributes to another part of this number.

5   1903.  Punch’s Almanack, 11. Dicky Sinclair … hit a tremendous SWIPE, and ran eight before they had the sense to call ‘Lost Ball.’

6   2.  (common).—In pl. = thin, washy beer; small beer: also (schools) any poor tipple. As verb = to drink. Hence SWIPEY (or SWIPED) = drunk; and SWIPES = a potman (GROSE). Also see PURSER’S SWIPES.

7   1824.  SCOTT, Redgauntlet, xiii. Small SWIPES—more of malt than hop—with your leave I’ll try your black bottle.

8   1838.  WILLIAM WATTS (‘Lucian Redivivus’), Paradise Lost, 32. And I have nought to drink but SWIPES.

9   1843.  DICKENS, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxviii. He’s only a little SWIPEY, you know.

10   Verb. (American).—To steal: see PRIG.

11   1900.  FLYNT, Tramping with Tramps, 43. Some one suggested a clever plan by which even a can of preserves could be ‘SWIPED,’ as they called it.

12   1903.  BART KENNEDY, A Sailor Tramp, I. iv. That is rotten hard work. It’s a job I’d SWIPE from no man.

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