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单词 swipper
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swipperadj.

/ˈswɪpə/
Forms: Middle English swiper(e, swyper, Middle English–1500s Scottish swepyr, Middle English swypir, swypyr, swepir, sweper, 1500s swip(p)ir, swypper, shwyper, 1500s– swipper.
Etymology: representing (with change of meaning) Old English swipor , geswipor crafty, cunning, corresponding to Old High German swephar , sweffar , swepfar , also swef(f)ari , sweffri , in the same sense; < swip- to move quickly, root of swip v. Compare Low German swipp(e clever, Old Norse svipull fickle. In Middle English texts the p has been sometimes misread as þ , and this again changed to th . The Scots variant swippert is found from the 18th cent.; for the form compare sweert adj. = sweer adj.
Now dialect.
Quick, nimble, active.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > bodily movement > [adjective] > qualities of bodily movement > agile or nimble
lightOE
quiverOE
yepec1275
taitc1300
yap13..
delivera1375
swippera1387
wight1390
nimblea1400
yarea1400
yerna1400
smitherc1475
leger1483
agilea1500
liver1530
lightsome1567
wimble1579
nimble jointed1591
nimble shifting1591
agilious1599
nimbling1599
nimble spirited1611
expedite1612
fitchanta1616
airy1642
fantastic1645
volant1650
clever1691
light-limbed1695
spry1746
swack1768
swank1786
yauld1787
deliverly1820
slippy1847
nippy1849
springe1859
pantherish1869
pantherine1890
flippant1895
loose1907
Tarzanesque1933
Tarzan-like1943
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 361 Aristotle..was sweper [some MSS. sweþer, swyþer; ed. 1527 shwyper] and swift, and cleer of witte.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xii. xxi. (Tollem. MS.) Þe swalowe is..swiper and most swyfte of flyȝte.
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 5221 Swypir [v.r. swepir] feendly hand with strook vengeable.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 484/1 Swypyr, or delyvyr, agilis.
c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 514 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 165 Þane Iosaphus, as a wicht man & swepyr alswa, a swerd gat.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. v. 20 Als fery and als swipper as a page.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 47 Swipper, nimble, quick.
1875 E. Waugh Old Cronies viii. 95 They were a lot o' th swipper'st stark'est, lads i' Christendom, wur th' Lancashire Volunteers.

Derivatives

ˈswipperly adv. Obsolete quickly, nimbly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > bodily movement > [adverb] > agilely or nimbly
lighteOE
lightly?a1200
wightlyc1330
deliverlya1375
swipperly?a1400
wakerly?a1400
wighta1400
yaplya1400
featlyc1400
nimblyc1450
lightsomely1561
nimble1568
wimbly1594
yarelya1616
yare1622
featilya1640
agilely1663
cleverly1686
spry1855
lissomely1902
spryly1905
cattishly1913
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adverb] > swiftly and briskly
sharplya1000
smartc1300
smartlyc1300
spackc1330
wightlyc1330
spacklya1350
swipperly?a1400
wighta1400
nimblyc1450
quiverly1519
roundly1548
nimble1568
bragly1579
snap1583
yarelya1616
briskly1665
smartish1839
nippily1932
snappingly1976
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1128 Bot ȝit the kynge sweperly fulle swythe he by-swenkez.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1465 They..Swappez doune ffulle sweperlye swelltande knyghtez.
c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Taylor) 55 The squyppand watur, that squyperly [printed squytherly; cf. squeturly l. 540 infra] squoes.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. ii. 34 Furth fleand swepyrly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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