Definition of Swamies

1. swamy [n] - See also: swamy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swamies

swallowers
swallowest
swalloweth
swallowfish
swallowing
swallows
swallowtail
swallowtails
swallowwort
swallowworts
swaly
swam
swamboite
swami
swamies (current term)
swamis
swamp
swamp ash
swamp azalea
swamp bay
swamp beggar-ticks
swamp birch
swamp blackberry
swamp blueberry
swamp buggy
swamp candleberry
swamp candles
swamp chestnut oak
swamp cooler

Literary usage of Swamies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. My Indian Journal by Walter Campbell (1864)
"swamies. Crucifixes, for instance, and other figures really well carved, ... He evidently looked upon the ' swamies' as the objects best worthy of attention ..."

2. The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington: During His Various by Arthur Wellesley Wellington (1837)
"I have desired him to give the prize agents a receipt for the swamies, and, as it appears that they are to be paid for, you will be the best judge, ..."

3. Life in London: Or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and by Pierce Egan, Robert Cruikshank, George Cruikshank (1904)
"... MP's, mail-guards, swaMies, &c. all in one rude contact, jostling and pushing against each other, when the doors were opened to procure a front seat. ..."

4. The Christian Library: A Reprint of Popular Religious Works by Jonathan Going (1836)
"At all the great festivals of the church they conform to the customs of the Heathens; except that they call their 'swamies' by names of Aponte and other ..."

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