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vanishedone commented on the word swallier
BBC: 'I don't want them to see us as a nation of bevviers and swalliers. Where the image that first comes to mind of Scotland is of drunkenness and violence. I don't want our people and land constantly portrayed and seen almost as synonymous with drink and aggression.'
Possibly a Scots slang or dialect word? Of the very few Google results, the first suggests it's a surname.
October 18, 2008
yarb commented on the word swallier
Swally is Scottish (and maybe Irish?) slang for booze, both as noun and verb - I presume a corruption of swallow. Bevvier would seem to come from bevy in the same way.
I seem to recall seeing swally in the Dublinese of the likes of Joyce and Flann O'Brien, though I could be wrong.
October 18, 2008