swab·berOrigin of swabber
from or akin to 16th-c. Dutch zwabber from zwabben, to do dirty work, splash, akin to German schwappen from Indo-European base an unverified form swep-, to throw, pour out from source Classical Latin supare, to throw around
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noun
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(plural swabbers)
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swab +"Ž -er
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