swatsn.
/swɒts/, U.S. /swɑts/, Scottish English /swɔts/ Scottish.
With plural and singular agreement. New small beer or ale; also see quot. 1888.
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a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 204 Sueir swappit swanky, swynekeper ay for swaittis.
1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxiii. 261 Now drink thay Mylk and Swaits in steid of Aill.
1706 Blythsome Wedding in J. Watson Choice Coll. Scots Poems (1977) I. 69 There will be..swats, and scraped paunches.
1717 A. Ramsay Elegy Lucky Wood vi She ne'er..kept dow'd tip within her waws, But reaming swats.
1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 40 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 558 Reaming swats, that drank divinely.
1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold xxx However, he took a draught of swats (small ale).
1888 B. Edmondston & J. M. E. Saxby Home of Naturalist 209 Swatts is the water that covers sowens, and is used to thin the sowens, or as a drink.
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