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Swamp vs Swamper - What's the difference?

swamp | swamper |

As nouns the difference between swamp and swamper

is that swamp is a piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes while swamper is a person who lives in a swampy area.

As a verb swamp

is to drench or fill with water.

swamp

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia swamp) (en noun)
  • A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
  • A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures who have adapted specifically to that environment.

    • Derived terms

    * swamp gum * swampland * swamp wallaby * swampy

    See also

    * bog * marsh * moor

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To drench or fill with water.
    • The boat was swamped in the storm.
  • To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
    • I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system.
  • * 2006 , New York Times,
    • Mr. Spitzer’s defeat of his Democratic opponent ... ended a primary season in which Hillary Rodham Clinton swamped an antiwar challenger for renomination to the Senate.
  • (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
  • * J. R. Green
    • The Whig majority of the house of Lords was swamped by the creation of twelve Tory peers.
  • * W. Hamilton
    • Having swamped himself in following the ignis fatuus of a theory

    swamper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A person who lives in a swampy area.
  • (US) A person who clears a road for lumberers in a forest or swamp.
  • *1860 , James Brown, New Brunswick as a Home for Emigrants , p. 10:
  • *:In the latter part of winter, I hired with a lumberer – camped out, and wrought in the forest as a swamper .
  • Someone or something that swamps or overwhelms.
  • *1991 , Kedar Nath Prasad, India's Rural Problems , p. 38:
  • *:The Population Factor is a dissipator or swamper of the gain in per capita income and hence of the redressal of poverty to that degree.
  • (North America, slang) A truck driver's assistant; an assistant to a driver of horses, mules or bullocks.
  • *1926 , Jacob Allred, "Driving the last 20-mule team across Death Valley", Popular Mechanics , Apr 1926, p. 610:
  • *:To use such a brake on the front wagon, the driver stood up on the seat, letting the team follow the leaders, and threw his whole weight on the upper end of the bar, while the swamper braked the rear wagon.
  • (Australia, slang) a person who travels by foot but has his belongings on a wagon.
  • * 1901 , May Vivienne, Travels in Western Australia: Being A Description of the Various Cities and Towns, Goldfields, and Agricultural Districts of that State , 1993, page 167,
    • On the road to the Diorite King, which is about 40 miles from Leonora, there was nothing much to see except a good many swampers'. A “' swamper ” is a man tramping without his swag, which he entrusts to a teamster to bring on his waggon.
  • *1936 , Sir John Kirwan, My Life's Adventure , p. 77:
  • *:He arrived at Western Australia the year after the discovery of gold at Coolgardie, and walked to the goldfields as a "swamper " – that is, he paid to have his belongings carried on a dray while he trudged along beside it.
  • (US) A handyman or general employee in a liquor saloon; a cook's assistant.
  • *1937 , John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men , Penguin 1994, p. 19:
  • *:The old swamper shifted his broom and held it between his elbow and his side while he held out his hand for the can.