"swazzle" meaning in All languages combined

See swazzle on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈswɒz(ə)l/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav Forms: swazzles [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒzəl Etymology: From swatchel, probably from German schwätzeln, from schwatzen. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|de|schwätzeln}} German schwätzeln Head templates: {{en-noun}} swazzle (plural swazzles)
  1. A device to change the voice to make it more raspy, used in Punch and Judy performances
    Sense id: en-swazzle-en-noun-HOBwfXko Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 86 14 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: swatchel, swozzle

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈswɒz(ə)l/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav Forms: swazzles [present, singular, third-person], swazzling [participle, present], swazzled [participle, past], swazzled [past]
Rhymes: -ɒzəl Etymology: From swatchel, probably from German schwätzeln, from schwatzen. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|de|schwätzeln}} German schwätzeln Head templates: {{en-verb}} swazzle (third-person singular simple present swazzles, present participle swazzling, simple past and past participle swazzled)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak using a swazzle. Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-swazzle-en-verb-1VZLj9K4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: swatchel, swozzle

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "schwätzeln"
      },
      "expansion": "German schwätzeln",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From swatchel, probably from German schwätzeln, from schwatzen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swazzles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "swazzle (plural swazzles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A device to change the voice to make it more raspy, used in Punch and Judy performances"
      ],
      "id": "en-swazzle-en-noun-HOBwfXko",
      "links": [
        [
          "raspy",
          "raspy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈswɒz(ə)l/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒzəl"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "swatchel"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "swozzle"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "swazzle"
  ],
  "word": "swazzle"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "schwätzeln"
      },
      "expansion": "German schwätzeln",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From swatchel, probably from German schwätzeln, from schwatzen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swazzles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swazzling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swazzled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swazzled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "swazzle (third-person singular simple present swazzles, present participle swazzling, simple past and past participle swazzled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Bill Drummond, Mark Manning, The Wild Highway, page 384:",
          "text": "Of course there was more to swazzling than what I could do instinctively. I had to learn to switch from the swazzled voice of Punch to the pantomime-dame voice of Judy.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Robert Charles Hines, Twists and Turns: 13 Tales of the Uneasy, page 126:",
          "text": "In the background, Mr Punch could be heard swazzling, “That's the way to do it!”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak using a swazzle."
      ],
      "id": "en-swazzle-en-verb-1VZLj9K4",
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To speak using a swazzle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈswɒz(ə)l/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒzəl"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "swatchel"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "swozzle"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "swazzle"
  ],
  "word": "swazzle"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from German",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒzəl",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒzəl/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "schwätzeln"
      },
      "expansion": "German schwätzeln",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From swatchel, probably from German schwätzeln, from schwatzen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swazzles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "swazzle (plural swazzles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A device to change the voice to make it more raspy, used in Punch and Judy performances"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "raspy",
          "raspy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈswɒz(ə)l/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒzəl"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "swatchel"
    },
    {
      "word": "swozzle"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "swazzle"
  ],
  "word": "swazzle"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from German",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒzəl",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒzəl/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "schwätzeln"
      },
      "expansion": "German schwätzeln",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From swatchel, probably from German schwätzeln, from schwatzen.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swazzles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swazzling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swazzled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "swazzled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "swazzle (third-person singular simple present swazzles, present participle swazzling, simple past and past participle swazzled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Bill Drummond, Mark Manning, The Wild Highway, page 384:",
          "text": "Of course there was more to swazzling than what I could do instinctively. I had to learn to switch from the swazzled voice of Punch to the pantomime-dame voice of Judy.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Robert Charles Hines, Twists and Turns: 13 Tales of the Uneasy, page 126:",
          "text": "In the background, Mr Punch could be heard swazzling, “That's the way to do it!”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak using a swazzle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive) To speak using a swazzle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈswɒz(ə)l/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/12/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-swazzle.wav.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒzəl"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "swatchel"
    },
    {
      "word": "swozzle"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "swazzle"
  ],
  "word": "swazzle"
}

Download raw JSONL data for swazzle meaning in All languages combined (3.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (f889f65 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.