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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16 April 2025

RACY

(adjective) marked by richness and fullness of flavor; “a rich ruby port”; “full-bodied wines”; “a robust claret”; “the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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