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单词 swizzle-stick
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swizzle-stickn.

Etymology: < swizzle n.1 + stick n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswizzle-stick.
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.
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the world > food and drink > drink > preparation of drinks > [noun] > stirring or shaking utensil
toddy stick1823
cocktail shaker1868
shaker1868
cocktail mixer1875
swizzle-stick1879
mixer1895
1879 J. W. Boddam-Whetham Roraima & Brit. Guiana xii. 129 The revolutions of a peculiar instrument called the swizzle-stick.
1885 A. Brassey In 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.
1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle v. 135 Shout for your boy to bring the cocktail... Where's the swizzle-stick?
1951 N.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.
1964 P. G. Wodehouse Frozen Assets ii. 36 The way the mere sound of her voice got inside one and stirred one up as with a swizzle-stick.
1976 J. 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. transferred.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > tool > types of tools generally > [noun] > in form of bar, pole, rod, etc.
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bamboo1598
loggat1600
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sparret1632
picket1687
tringle1706
sprund1736
lug-pole1773
polting lug1789
baton1801
stuckin1809
rack-pin1821
picket-pin1844
I-iron1874
pricker1875
stag1881
podger1888
window pole1888
verge1897
sallow pole1898
lat1899
swizzle-stick1962
1962 J. Glenn in J. Glenn et al. 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’.
1977 Lancet 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.

Compounds

swizzle-stick tree n. a small aromatic evergreen tree, Quararibea turbinata, of the family Bombacaceæ, found in the West Indies and tropical South America.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > South American and West Indian trees or shrubs > [noun] > evergreens
boldo1717
purple heart1738
ombú1839
pepper tree1848
velvet-seed1866
swizzle-stick tree1943
1943 S. J. Record & R. W. Hess Timbers New World 98/1 All specimens of Quararibea without distinct heartwood... Common names: Garrocho, swizzle-stick tree.
1951 E. Mittelholzer Shadows move among Them i. xvi. 153 Wild cacao and swizzle-stick trees and ferns..grew out of reddish sand.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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