swizzle

Meanings

Plural: swizzles

Noun

any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice
Any of various kinds of alcoholic drink.
Alternative form of switchel (“drink based on water and vinegar”).
Synonym of swizz (“swindle, disappointment”).

Verb

To stir or mix.
To drink; to swill.
To permute bits, or elements of a vector.
To convert portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.
To change a class's dispatch table in order to resolve messages from an existing selector to a new implementation.

Origin / Etymology

Unknown etymology, 1813. Original sense “alcoholic drink”, possibly a variant of switchel (“a drink of molasses and water, often mixed with rum”), attested 1790, itself of uncertain origin. Possibly influenced by swirl or fizz.
In verb sense “to stir”, from swizzle stick (“stick for stirring alcoholic drinks”), itself attested 1859.

Synonyms

swizz

Antonyms

unswizzle

Scrabble Score: 28

swizzle is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
swizzle is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
swizzle is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 29

swizzle is a valid Words With Friends word