Definition of Swobbing

1. swob [v] - See also: swob

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swobbing

swizzed
swizzes
swizzing
swizzle
swizzle stick
swizzle sticks
swizzled
swizzler
swizzlers
swizzles
swizzling
swob
swobbed
swobber
swobbers
swobbing (current term)
swobs
swoe
swoes
swole
swollen
swollen-headed
swollenly
swollenness
swoln
swoltery
swomp
swone
swones
swonk

Literary usage of Swobbing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1907)
"Wool or gauze used for this purpose, or for swobbing out, say the throat, to obtain shreds of suspicious matter, must have no antiseptic impregnated in it, ..."

2. Manual of Bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1897)
"Wool or gauze used for this purpose, or for swobbing out, say the throat, to obtain shreds of suspicious matter, must have no antiseptic impregnated in it, ..."

3. Manual of Bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1907)
"Wool or gauze used for this purpose, or for swobbing out, say the throat, to obtain shreds of suspicious matter, must have no antiseptic impregnated in it, ..."

4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1862)
"... Captain, jewel 1" she bounced into the room, with flaming face and eyes swelled, and the end of her apron, with which she had been swobbing them, ..."

5. Manual of Bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1907)
"Wool or gauze used for this purpose, or for swobbing out, say the throat, to obtain shreds of suspicious matter, must have no antiseptic impregnated in it, ..."

6. Manual of Bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1897)
"Wool or gauze used for this purpose, or for swobbing out, say the throat, to obtain shreds of suspicious matter, must have no antiseptic impregnated in it, ..."

7. Manual of Bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1907)
"Wool or gauze used for this purpose, or for swobbing out, say the throat, to obtain shreds of suspicious matter, must have no antiseptic impregnated in it, ..."

8. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1862)
"... Captain, jewel 1" she bounced into the room, with flaming face and eyes swelled, and the end of her apron, with which she had been swobbing them, ..."

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