Lexicographical Neighbors of Swaddy
Literary usage of Swaddy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London life at the police-courts by W H. Watts (1864)
"swaddy 'ud off with his belt, and I'd jest lift up my sledge-hammer fist, ...
Can't abide a swaddy, your worship, and that's all about it,' says I. " ' Then ..."
2. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"A soldier.' "A regiment o' swaddles." "Bown to be a swaddy!" " Tha'd mak a rare
swaddy! ..."
3. Sporting Facts and Sporting Fancies by Harry Hieover (1853)
"... by the following illustrations:— Approaching a very handsome house, he told
me an old swaddy lived there, who had given him nothing the only time he had ..."
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