swarry
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Noun[edit]
swarry (plural swarries)
- (UK, eye dialect, archaic) A soiree.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers:
- A select company of the Bath footmen presents their compliments to Mr. Weller, and requests the pleasure of his company this evening, to a friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.
- 1869, Henry Crabb Robinson, Thomas Sadler, Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson (page 470)
- His grimaces on eating hice at a swarry, and the way in which he olds his umbrelli, and vipes his nose, defy all criticism.