From Swift + -ian. <span class="searchmatch">Swiftian</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">Swiftian</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">Swiftian</span>) Of or pertaining to Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish satirist...
ironic-human touches wanting. Almost at its birth he satirises, in his own quiet <span class="searchmatch">Swiftian</span> way, an absurd tendency which has grown mightily since, and flourishes...
(Warwickshire) Avon north of Rugby. terms derived from Swift (surname) Swift County <span class="searchmatch">Swiftian</span> Swiftie Swift Quake Swift-Tuttle Tom Swifty, Tom Swiftie Swift (disambiguation)...
philosophising (also to 'common sense' - a terrifying twist, this, uniquely <span class="searchmatch">Swiftian</span>). (uncountable, by extension) A tendency toward rhetorical embellishments...