swad
See also: swąd
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Related to swaddle?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /swɒd/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒd
Noun
swad (plural swads)
- A bunch, clump, mass
- 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 10, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 102:
- " […] Ye'd oughta see th' swad a' chil'ren I've got, an' all like that."
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- (obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
- (obsolete) A boor, lout.
- 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John, scene 2
- Sham’st thou not coistrel, loathsome dunghill swad.
- 1633 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, OCLC 51546498, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- There was one busy fellow was their leader, / A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself.
- 1588, Robert Greene, Perimedes
- Country swains, and silly swads.
- 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John, scene 2
- (mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam[1].
- (UK, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
- 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia
- Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell — thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.
- 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia
References
- 1881, Rossiter W. Raymond, A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for swad in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Further reading
- WordNet 3.0 (2006, Princeton University); “swad”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Middle English
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