English Explanatory Dictionary

swipper

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. nimble; quick

Pronunciation

En-au-swipper.ogg

Word forms

swipper more swipper most swipper

Etymology

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.

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