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Switzer arch.|ˈswɪtsə(r)|
Also 6 Switser, Zuitzer, 7 Swytzer, Switzard, Zwitzer, -ar. See also Swisser.
[ad. MHG. Switzer, Schwytzer, etc. (early mod.G. Schweytzer, now Schweizer), or MDu. Switser, Swytzer (Du. Zwitser); cf. MDa. Svidser, Suitzer, Fris. Sweitser, etc.; f. Switz(en), etc., Switzerland: see Swiss.]
1. = Swiss n. 1.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades ii. viii. 193/1 Wee Switzers saye: Vrteilen oder erteilen oder richten. 1597Skene De Verb. Sign. s.v. Menetum, I haue seene the like in the Cuntrie of Helvetia..amangst the Zuitzers. 1624Capt. J. Smith Virginia iii. xi. 88 One William Volday, a Zwitzar by birth. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 1134 A Monster with huge Whiskers, More formidable than a Switzers. 1754Fielding Voy. Lisbon Wks. 1882 VII. 92 The honesty and freedom of the Switzer. 1810Scott Lady of L. vi. iii, The mountain-loving Switzer. 1883American VII. 186 Born, reared and educated a Switzer.
2. pl. = Swiss guards (Swiss a. 2): rarely sing. Also fig.
1591Garrard's Art Warre 348 But against the Switzers and Launce Knights, the Launce auaileth litle. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. v. 97 King. Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the doore. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II) 81 He will never suffer..that a Swytzer shall keep them from entring his base court. 1724J. Macky Journ. thro' Eng. I. ii. 29 A Guard-Hall, where the Switzers, or the Yeomen of the Guards, as they are called here [sc. Windsor Castle], do Duty. 1892T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer III. vii. 193 That literary proletariat of the last century whose members..threatened at one time to develop into an organized band of scribbling Switzers.
3. attrib. or adj. = Swiss a.
1598Barret Theor. Warres v. ii. 172 A seruant..(who spake the Switzer tong perfectly well). 1818Scott Battle Sempach vii, The Switzer priest has ta'en the field. 1829― Anne of G. x, Now thou hast seen us more closely, what thinkest thou of the Switzer youth?
Hence ˈSwitzeress, a female Switzer, a Swiss woman or girl. (The allusion in quot. 1719 is doubtful.)
1719Freethinker No. 132 ⁋7 It was impossible he should ever love such a Switzeress as the Queen. 1895Punch 28 Sept. 147/3 Simple Switzeresses outside toybooths..all in national costume. |