zowerswopped

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A dialectal form of sour-sapped (literally being sour or foul-tempered to the core or marrow).[1]

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zowerswopped (comparative more zowerswopped, superlative most zowerswopped)

  1. (West Country, Exmoor) Synonym of bad-tempered.
    • 1834, John Brent, chapter XIX, in Leitch Ritchie, editor, The Sea-Wolf. A Romance of “The Free Traders.” (The Library of Romance; XI), London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 185:
      "Did he understand you?" said Campbell. "O yes, for he called out to his men in Dutchified French, and looked at me zowerswopped enough. []"
    • 1993, Susan Kelz Sperling, Lost Words of Love, New York, N.Y.: C. Potter, →ISBN, page 50:
      I'm even more zowerswopped because I don't know for sure yet if I'm heavy-footed.
    • 1993 April 27, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.: Gannett Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C1:
      Who hasn't felt zowerswopped to find one's mailbox pragged with junk mail?

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  1. ^ Francis Grose, Samuel Pegge (1839) “Zowerswapped”, in A Glossary of Provincial and Local Words Used in England. [...] To which is Now First Incorporated the Supplement, by Samuel Pegge, [...], London: John Russell Smith, →OCLC, page 188:Zowerswapped, ill-natur'd, Exm[oor].