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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

swipper

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
swip-per
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

nimble; quick

Obsolete; Slang

Etymology

From Middle English swiper (“agile, nimble”), from Old English swipor, ġeswipor (“astute, cunning, shifty”), from Proto-West Germanic *swipr, from Proto-Germanic *swipraz (“quick, clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, turn, swing, sway, swerve, wander”), equivalent to swipe + -er. See swoop.

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Usage

Inflected Forms

more swipper (comparative) most swipper (superlative)

Questions

What does swipper mean?
nimble; quick
Where does swipper come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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