SWIZZLE

swizzle

(noun) any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

swizzle (countable and uncountable, plural swizzles)

Any of various kinds of alcoholic drink.

Alternative form of switchel (“drink based on water and vinegar”)

Verb

swizzle (third-person singular simple present swizzles, present participle swizzling, simple past and past participle swizzled)

To stir or mix.

(computing) To permute bits.

(computing, programming, transitive) To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.

To drink; to swill.

Antonyms

• (convert symbols to pointers): unswizzle

Source: Wiktionary


Swiz"zle, v. t.

Definition: To drink; to swill. Halliwell.

Swiz"zle, n.

Definition: Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

27 November 2024

NAUSEATING

(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”


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