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swipper

swipper adjective: nimble; quick.

Adjective

swipper (comparative more swipper, superlative most swipper)

  1. (Northern England, obsolete, slang) nimble; quick

Forms of swipper

comparativemore swipper
superlativemost swipper

Origin of swipper

From Middle English swiper (“agile, nimble”), from Old English swipor, ġeswipor (“astute, cunning, shifty”), from Proto-West Germanic *swipr, from Proto-Germanic *swipraz (“quick, clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, turn, swing, sway, swerve, wander”), equivalent to swipe + -er. See swoop.

Questions about swipper

What does swipper mean?
Swipper means nimble; quick.
What part of speech is swipper?
Swipper is an adjective.

Words near swipper in the dictionary

  1. swiping
  2. swiping left
  3. swiping right
  4. swiple
  5. swiples
  6. swipper
  7. swipple
  8. swipples
  9. SWIR
  10. swire
  11. swires

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