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Swizzle

Swizzle \Swiz"zle\, v. t. To drink; to swill.
--Halliwell.

Swizzle

Swizzle \Swiz"zle\, n. Ale and beer mixed; also, drink generally. [Prov. Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
swizzle

1813, name for various kinds of liquor drinks, or for intoxicating drinks generally, possibly a variant of switchel "a drink of molasses and water" (often mixed with rum), first attested 1790, of uncertain origin. As a verb from 1843. Related: Swizzled; swizzling. Swizzle-stick, used for stirring drinks, attested by 1859.

Wiktionary
swizzle

n. Any of various kinds of alcoholic drink. vb. 1 To stir or mix. 2 (context computing English) To permute bits. 3 (context computing programming transitive English) To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization. 4 To drink; to swill.

WordNet
swizzle

n. any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice

Wikipedia
Swizzle

Swizzle may refer to:

  • Swizzle (acro dance), type of movement for two people in acro dance
  • Swizzle (figure skating), type of movement in figure skating
  • Swizzle (game), a game for Palm OS by Bapsoft
  • Swizzle (lacrosse), a lacrosse shaft designed by Mikey Powell
  • Swizzle (practice), a British English term for swindle or an unfair or dishonest practice
  • Swizzle (hula hooping) is hula hooping with arms

Swizzling may refer to

  • Bit swizzling, moving bit positions in computer data
  • Byte swizzling, changing endianness in representation of computer data
  • Swizzling, a method used in computer graphics

Usage examples of "swizzle".

Indian chutney, cottage cheese, gooseberry jam, gingerbread, a cheese slipover consisting of a deep-dish apple pie with a Welsh rabbit melted over it, lobster stuffed and baked, broccoli Parmesan, crisp endive with Roquefort dressing, baked Alaska, coffee with grated orange peel and a clove, a Bacardi swizzle and a bottle of Fiora del Alpina, with a cashew nut to nibble and any other expensive or out of season comestibles obtainable or not.

That person will see, as I see now, the aerials massed above your villagea glorious profusion of bizcochos and swizzle sticks and moreand will begin a journey that mirrors mine, leading ultimately to a union with God.

Rather than devising a plan to regain my offices as businessman, father, and husband, I found myself thinking of bizcochos, blackhearts, melchiors and swizzle sticks, of the unknowable creature coiled within my skull, of the mystery these creatures posed, the exotic universal potentials their existence suggested, potentials most clearly expressed by the stormdweller.

Simon Templar poured gin and French vermouth into a tall crystal mixer, added a shot of Angostura, and swizzled the mixture with a long spoon.

The place was full of the things-miniature skeletons playing fireman's pole on the swizzle sticks and skating on the ice trays, an entire skeletal army performing acrobatics on the vast chandelier.

A ragged barrage of mixed nuts, used tea bags, swizzle sticks, sugar packets, ice cubes, balled-up napkins, tomatoes, scoops of ice cream, the contents of numerous glasses, and at least one shoe began to rain down on the Websters.

Fiona said, twirling a few noodles around a swizzle stick to get them into her mouth.

Sandy stabbed her swizzle stick into the pink slush in her glass and told herself it was Kelerison's heart.

Beth rejoined, while prying between her teeth with a swizzle stick.

I said, stirring the ice with a swizzle stick from a glass of them on the cart.

Give that one a golden torc,' I'd sooner try to plug a lava dike with my royal swizzle stick!

The pentagram was in shambles, most of the drink straws and swizzle sticks having been crushed underfoot or shunted aside by the previous night's partygoers, but it was but the work of a moment to grab the Silly String he had left there and fill in the missing segments.

They said things like: Remember carrot sticks in fridge, Don't forget to salt, and one I didn't understand at all that was stuck to an empty jar and read, Auntie Nora's swizzle sticks.

They're sucking on baby pacifiers, waving phosphorescent swizzle sticks and flashing their panties at the bartender, or possibly me.

It was fitted with back-seat television, plush carpets, radio-telephone, fur rugs, air-conditioning, and a built-in drinks cabinet holding in racks six bottles, twelve glasses, and a glittering array of chromiumed corkscrews, ice picks, and miscellaneous objects like swizzle sticks.