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▪ I. swy Austral. slang.|swaɪ|
Also swi.
[ad. G. zwei two.]
1. Two; spec. a two-shilling coin or a two-year prison sentence.
1924Truth (Sydney) 27 Apr. 6 Swy, two. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 75 Swy, the game of two-up. (2) A sentence of two years' gaol. (3) A florin. 1983Age (Melbourne) 15 Dec. 13 (caption) Exhibition of used coin of the realm: bank notes, collector's items, swys, deaners, zacs, treys, brass razoos.
2. The game of two-up (see also quot. 1950). Also swy-up.
1940Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Jan. 34/3 The crown-and-anchor seminary he avoids; When swi-up's on, a different direction He takes. 1941[see sense 1 above]. 1950K. S. Prichard Winged Seeds 63 What set the whole town agog, though, was their attempt to visit the ‘swy’: the famous two-up ring on a sand hill near the old Rising Sun Inn. 1953R. Braddon in I. Bevan Sunburnt Country 127 Swy is a game of chance, requiring the tossing of two or three pennies into the air and the betting of those who watch their rise and fall on whether they come down heads or tails. 1969Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 24 Sept. 1/1 He said two-up (or swy) was Australia's national game. 1976Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 Oct. 16/4 The police know they will never stop goldfielders playing swy.
3. Comb., as swy game, a game of two-up; swy school, a group of persons who have gathered to play two-up.
1950Austral. Police Jrnl. Apr. 118 Swi, 2s., but a swi-game is a two-up game. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxix. 284 There's all these little crims in the swi-game and the S.P. betting. 1969Telegraph (Brisbane) 14 May 8/4 Otherwise they blow it at the pub, or at the swy game.
1921Aussie 15 Mar. 54 Just done me last dollar up at the swi school. 1956S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 59 Neither shalt thou play two-up for lucre in the street, nor attend such swy schools in any private or public premises.
▪ II. swy
obs. form of sue v. |