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  • adjective Scotland Lithe; nimble.

Etymologies

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From Scots swack, from West Flemish zwak.

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Examples

  • A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: I took a good hard swack at the Meereenese knot.

    Jots and Niggles grrm 2009

  • I share space with other New Democratic bloggers, with a few Green bloggers and with a swack of Liberal bloggers.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • I share space with other New Democratic bloggers, with a few Green bloggers and with a swack of Liberal bloggers.

    Liberal Lemmings 2009

  • Polls show that a huge swack of American people love Sarah's policy reductionism - good versus evil, American versus un-American.

    Diane Francis: Sarah Palin Ad Nauseum 2009

  • I have always associated his name with his storytelling style, of strange half- and three-quarter- and sixth-and-eight-twists, going swanwick-swack! through your expectations in a delicious manner.

    A Date with the F&SF Oct/Nov All-Star Issue, Part 4: Only Wrappers Left | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008

  • The Old Bulls who have Nancy Pelosi in thrall of all their legislative swack in the House are playing a very dangerous game of chicken with Dick Cheney.

    The Guns of August 2007

  • He flipped directly up to the porcupine, striking its nose with a resounding swack.

    Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

  • He's short and swack o 'body, red of hair and face, wears a kilt o' Farquharson tartan, and winna 'say where he comes frae.

    The Black Colonel James Milne 1908

  • When he had had as much milk-porridge as he could eat, and a good slice of swack (elastic) cheese, with a cap (wooden bowl) of ale, all of which he consumed as if the good of them lay in the haste of their appropriation, he hurried back to the cottage, and sat there reading The

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • I am doing this at work. loveoandn (10 posts) on February 4, 2009 - 4: 19am. swack (114 posts) on February 4, 2009 - 7: 16am.

    AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters 2009

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  • Sweaty Crack, Occurs during exertion of host body.

    August 26, 2008