swipper

English

Etymology

From Middle English swiper (“agile, nimble”), from Old English swipor, ġeswipor (“astute, cunning, shifty”), from Proto-West Germanic *swipr, from Proto-Germanic *swipraz (“quick, clever”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyb- (“to bend, turn, swing, sway, swerve, wander”), equivalent to swipe +‎ -er. See swoop.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

swipper (comparative more swipper, superlative most swipper)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect, slang) nimble; quick

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “swipper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)