swad

See also: swąd

English

Alternative forms

swod

Etymology

Related to swaddle?

Noun

swad (plural swads)

A bunch, clump, mass
- 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 10, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 102:
  " […] Ye'd oughta see th' swad a' chil'ren I've got, an' all like that."
(obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
(obsolete) A boor, lout.
- 1591 — The Troublesome Reign of King John, scene 2
  Sham’st thou not coistrel, loathsome dunghill swad.
- Ben Jonson
  There was one busy fellow was their leader, / A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself.
- Greene
  Country swains, and silly swads.
(mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)
(Britain, dialectal, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
- Blount
  Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell — thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for swad in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Synonyms

(bunch, clump): bunch, clump, mass

References

WordNet 3.0 (2006, Princeton University); “swad” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

AWDs, Daws, WASD, daws, wads

Middle English

Noun

swad

Alternative form of swathe (“swath”)

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