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ˈswizzle-stick
[f. swizzle n.1 + stick n.1]
1. A stick used for stirring drink into a froth. Also, a rod used to stir a mixed drink, or to flatten the effervescence of a cocktail, etc.
1879J. W. Boddam-Whetham Roraima & Brit. Guiana xii. 129 The revolutions of a peculiar instrument called the swizzle-stick. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 152, I mean..to take home some ‘swizzle-sticks’. They are cut from some kind of creeper, close to a joint, where four or five shoots branch out at right angles, so as to produce a star-like circle. 1899C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle v. 135 Shout for your boy to bring the cocktail... Where's the swizzle-stick? 1951N.Y. Herald-Tribune 9 Mar. 18/3 Under Otto Preminger's direction it is all as frothy and inevitable as the action of a swizzle stick in a champagne glass. 1964Wodehouse Frozen Assets ii. 36 The way the mere sound of her voice got inside one and stirred one up as with a swizzle-stick. 1976J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo iii. 69, I was being officiously counselled not to commit the solecism of using a swizzle-stick too soon.
2. transf.
1962J. Glenn in Into Orbit 44 A simple little rod... It is ten inches long, has a hook on the end of it for pulling at levers and a stub for pushing at buttons. You grasp it in your glove if you know you are not going to be able to reach something with your fingers... We call it, naturally, a ‘swizzle stick’. 1977Lancet 16 Apr. 836/2 The swizzlestick consists of a handle fastened to a small stainless steel circular platform to which is also fastened a stainless steel displacement probe having a diameter slightly less than the bore of a capillary tube and a volume equal to the volume of blood required for the assay.
3. Comb., as swizzle-stick tree, a small aromatic evergreen tree, Quararibea turbinata, of the family Bombacaceæ, found in the W. Indies and tropical South America.
1943Record & Hess Timbers New World 98/1 All specimens of Quararibea without distinct heartwood... Common names: Garrocho, swizzle-stick tree. 1951E. A. Mittelholzer Shadows move among Them i. xvi. 153 Wild cacao and swizzle-stick trees and ferns..grew out of reddish sand. |