Swiftie

See also: swiftie

English

Alternative forms

• Swifty

Etymology

From Swift +‎ -ie.

Pronunciation

• enPR: swĭft′ē
• (Received Pronunciation, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪft.iː/

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• (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪft.i/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈswəft.iː/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈswɪfʈ.iː/
• Rhymes: -ɪfti
• Hyphenation: Swift‧ie

Noun

Swiftie (plural Swifties)

1. (informal) An enthusiastic fan of American singer-songwriter and actress Taylor Swift.
   • 2012 April, Ina Esclamado, “Taylor Swift”, in Cord Music Magazine, page 26:

     Today was the day, and it hadn't fully hit me till that very moment when the doors opened and I was rushing to the front of the stage and standing amongst the thousands of fellow Swifties.

   • 2013 February 14, Sean Keeley, “Grammys: the good, the bad and the ugly”, in The Heights, volume 94, number 8, Boston College, page B4:

     Even for devoted Swifties, it's hard to deny that her surrealist nightmare of a Grammy performance was a definite miscalculation.

   • 2013, Colin Orthmann, "Party Animals", Sound, Phrase & Fury, Volume 1, Issue 5, September/October 2013, page 35:

     “RED” makes you think of Taylor Swift, so maybe we can get some confused Swifties to buy our album.

   • 2022 December 17, Judith Newman, “John Fetterman’s TikTok Whisperer”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Fresh off a frantic election cycle, the former Fetterman campaign social media producer — and dedicated Swiftie — takes time to shake it off.

Derived terms

• Swiftiedom

See also

• Tom Swifty

Anagrams

• wifiest