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#96747 02/23/2003 4:38 AM
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swaff - to come one over the other, like waves upon the shore -- Charles Mackay's Lost Beauties of the English Language, 1874


#96748 02/23/2003 11:22 AM
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'swonderful!



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#96749 02/23/2003 2:53 PM
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swaff

Great word!...is it related to waft?


#96750 02/24/2003 12:47 AM
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If someone is swilling one drink after another, could he be swaffing them?


#96751 02/24/2003 2:54 AM
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tsuwm, in response to that lovely post, my affection for you is just swaffing all over the place! <grin> (Mercy, it is suddenly very warm in here...)



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