swazzle
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From swatchel, probably from German schwätzeln, from schwatzen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈswɒz(ə)l/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒzəl
Noun
swazzle (plural swazzles)
- A device to change the voice to make it more raspy, used in Punch and Judy performances
Verb
swazzle (third-person singular simple present swazzles, present participle swazzling, simple past and past participle swazzled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To speak using a swazzle.
- 2005, Bill Drummond, Mark Manning, The Wild Highway, page 384:
- Of course there was more to swazzling than what I could do instinctively. I had to learn to switch from the swazzled voice of Punch to the pantomime-dame voice of Judy.
- 2018, Robert Charles Hines, Twists and Turns: 13 Tales of the Uneasy, page 126:
- In the background, Mr Punch could be heard swazzling, “That's the way to do it!”