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swifty, a. rare (chiefly poet.).|ˈswɪftɪ|
[f. swift a. + -y.]
Swift. Hence † ˈswiftiness.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 407 Crist is swiftier in hise werkes þan oure tungis ben in her speche. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 36 Al manere games that longyn to power or switnesse [v.r. swiftinesse]. 1563B. Googe Eglogs, etc. (Arb.) 71 His Spurres with heeles he strykes, And forewarde ronnes with swiftye race. 1567Drant Horace, Ep. ii. ii. H vj, As gliding waues in swiftye streames are quickly cumd, and gone. 1596P. Colse Penelope (1880) 170 To swifty Dolon take good heede. a1890R. F. Burton tr. Catullus' Carmina lv. 26 Rhesus borne in swifty car snow-white. |