An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Swanky, adj.
1. Perh. empty, hungry.
Dunbar.
2. Applied to one who is tall, but lank, Fife.

To SWAP, v. a. To exchange, S.

Isl. skipt-a, mutare.

To SWAP, v. a.
1. To draw.
Barbour.
2. To throw with violence.
Barbour.
3. To strike.
Wallace.

Isl. swip-a, vibrare; sweip-a, percutere.

Swap, s. A sudden stroke.
Sir Gawan.

SWAP, SWAUP, s. The cast or lineaments of the countenance, S.

Isl. swip-ur, imago apparens; swipad-r, vultu similis.

Sax. and Gael.

Swapit, part. adj. Moulded.
Dunbar.