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Definition of Swabber
1. v. t. To swab.
2. n. One who swabs a floor or desk.
Definition of Swabber
1. Noun. One who swabs a floor or deck. ¹
2. Noun. (nautical historical) An interior officer on British warships, responsible for seeing that the ship was kept clean. ¹
3. Noun. (context: whist) (alternative form of swobber) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swabber
1. one that swabs [n -S] - See also: swabs
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swabber
Literary usage of Swabber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi by Harry Houdini (1920)
"He speaks of an Englishman "like some swabber of a ship, come from the Indies,
where he has learned to eat fire as familiarly as ever I saw any eat cakes, ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"More fit to be a swabber to the Flemish After a drunken surfeit. ... I am his
swabber, his chamberlain, his footman, his clerk, his butler, his book keeper, ..."
3. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi by Harry Houdini (1920)
"He speaks of an Englishman "like some swabber of a ship, come from the Indies,
where he has learned to eat fire as familiarly as ever I saw any eat cakes, ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"More fit to be a swabber to the Flemish After a drunken surfeit. ... I am his
swabber, his chamberlain, his footman, his clerk, his butler, his book keeper, ..."
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