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▪ I. swilly, n. dial.|ˈswɪlɪ|
Also swilley.
[app. var. of swelly n.]
1. A detached portion of a coal-seam; also, a local thickening of a coal-seam: = swelly n.
1836T. Thomson Min. Geol., etc. ii. 162 These little basins are provincially called swilleys. They seldom exceed a mile or a mile and a half in length, and none of them has been worked.
2. An eddy or whirlpool; also in comb. swilly-hole (see quot.).
1890W. A. Wallace Only a Sister 95 I'd sooner lig like an eel in a swilly hole all my days. Note, A swilly hole = a pool at the bend of a stream.
3. ‘A hollow place;..a gutter washed out of the soil’ (E.D.D.).
1899Evesham Jrnl. Mar. 25 (E.D.D.) The drainage was what was locally known as discharging into ‘swilleys’.
▪ II. ˈswilly, a. rare—1.
[f. swill n.2 2 or v. 3 + -y.]
Addicted to swilling or heavy drinking.
1824in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1825) 199 Father Crackenthorpe jovial, and stuffy, and swilly. |