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swiftie|ˈswɪftɪ|
Also swifty.
[f. swift a. + -y6, -ie.]
1. A fast-moving person: a rapid runner, a quick thinker. Also ironically. colloq.
1945Sun (Baltimore) 24 Feb. 9/1 Dan Ferris..says that the Swedish swiftie's provisional entry still is among the 36 hopefuls in the 3-mile run. 1946J. Irving Royal Navalese 170 Swifty, a derisive nickname for any particularly lugubrious and slow-moving man. 1969N. Freeling Tsing-Boum xvii. 126 Make no mistake about those feminine nails: a swifty.
2. An act of deception, a trick or sleight; = roughie 3. Also in phr. to pull a swiftie (cf. to pull a fast one s.v. fast a. 11, and pull v. 20 d). Austral. slang.
1945Baker Austral. Lang. xv. 265 Swiftie..will..be heard in male conversation to describe a joke or trick that is either agreeable or disagreeable. 1953‘Caddie’ Sydney Barmaid 224 ‘You didn't work a swiftie on them, did you?’ I asked suspiciously. For I was already aware that Bill was collecting three doles for himself. 1962R. Tullipan March into Morning 43 If these mugs hadn't pulled a swifty they wouldn't have been working for me at all. 1969Sunday Truth (Brisbane) 23 Mar. 28/4 Police..arrested him for his Sydney swiftie. 1976Sydney Morning Herald 9 Apr. 6 The Queensland Premier..is now worried that the Federal Treasury may be trying to pull a swiftie.
▸ Brit. colloq. An alcoholic drink, intended to be consumed quickly. Cf. swift half n. at swift adj. and adv. Additions, quickie n. 1b(a).
1993Herald (Glasgow) 18 Oct. (Sport section) 14/6 Thank you, too, Ken, president, for a wee swifty of the amber in the Airdrie Academy building where Strathclyde Region says you cannae have a drink at all. 1995Loaded July 38/2 We went to..a themed bar..where..the world's Grade A celebs drop in for a swifty when they're out on the town. 2001C. Glazebrook Madolescents 152 We cross over Percy Street and bowl into bar Oz so we can have a swiftie while we're deciding where to go. |