Swiss vs Swig - What's the difference?
swiss | swig |
Of, from, or pertaining to Switzerland or the Swiss people.
A person from Switzerland or of Swiss descent.
To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.
(obsolete) To suck.
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(nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line (also: sweating )
(en noun), (Appalachian)
A long draught from a drink.
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(nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.
As verbs the difference between swiss and swig
is that swiss is to prepare (meat, fabric, etc) by rolling or pounding in order to soften it while swig is to drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.As a noun swig is
a long draught from a drink.swiss
English
Adjective
(-)See also
* Alemannic * Schweizerdeutsch * * Swiss GermanNoun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* Swiss Army knife * Swiss Army penknife * Swiss cheese * Swiss dagger * Swiss franc * Swiss German * Swiss rollswig
English
Verb
(swigg)- That sailor can swig whisky with the best of 'em.
- The lambkins swig the teat.
Synonyms
* (to drink) chug, gulp, guzzle, quaff * See alsoNoun
- And he took the last swig out of the pint.
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