Citations:swack

English citations of swack

Adj: Elastic

• 1867, Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood, The Argosy - Volume 3, page 261:

  When he had had as much milk-porridge as he could eat, and a good slice of swack cheese (that is, a certain cheese of gelatinous and therefore elastic consistency) , with a caup (wooden bowl) of ale, all of which he consumed as if the good of them lay in the haste of their appropriation, he hurried back to the cottage, and sat there reading Arabian Nights, till the sun went down in the orange-hued west, and in the gloamin' the reapers came home, John and Elspet Hewson, and their son George, to their supper and early bed.

Verb: divvy? acquire illegally?

• 1850, Records & Briefs New York State Appellate Division:

  […] bought a piece of property from me that was worth ten grand and he pays me thirty or forty thousand dollars, or any amount where he and I are going to swack up the spoils -- and that's what you would understand from these blessed newspaper articles.

Noun: ill-gotten gains? Swindle? Swag?

• 1959, Reports of Cases Determined in the District Courts of Appeal, page 132:

  I suspect that that was done and Mr. Verdugo's statement that he was not asked about any of the swack and so forth is false.