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  • #61
    If it's suitable for tomorrow:

    To run round after elderly relatives

    OR

    To eat too much rich food.

    (Somehow I also think I've heard of swaging a lead pipe, which involved a blowlamp, but I hope I'm not doing that tomorrow.)

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    • #62
      To swage - collapse in a comfy chair after eating too much

      A zwadder - something you snuggle up with such as a cushion or blanket whilst swaging
      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

      Location....Normandy France

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      • #63
        To swage...To push out the boat.
        zwadder....A pokey stick.
        Last edited by bramble; 24-12-2024, 10:45 AM.

        And when your back stops aching,
        And your hands begin to harden.
        You will find yourself a partner,
        In the glory of the garden.

        Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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        • #64
          Swage - Violet Bucket's holly garland

          Zwadder - the contents of a Christmas cracker.
          Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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          • #65
            To swage.. to push out the boat.


            zwadder.. a pokey stick.
            Last edited by bramble; 24-12-2024, 10:48 AM.

            And when your back stops aching,
            And your hands begin to harden.
            You will find yourself a partner,
            In the glory of the garden.

            Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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            • #66
              Swage has something to do with metal and a hammer,as in making a shape,it rings a bell in my head


              Zwadder something one does after to much booze
              sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these

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              • #67
                Originally posted by lottie dolly View Post
                Swage has something to do with metal and a hammer,as in making a shape,it rings a bell in my head
                From the old French for decorative groove, that's true, LD, but colloquially in dialect from 1700's, it has another meaning, not related to metal-working.

                Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
                Endless wonder.

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                • #68
                  OH thankyou then am stumped


                  another guess is persuade a person into something by talking
                  sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by lottie dolly View Post
                    another guess is persuade a person into something by talking
                    Or possibly with the pokey stick?
                    Last edited by Snoop Puss; 24-12-2024, 06:17 PM.

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                    • #70
                      Swage: to relax after a large meal.
                      Zwodder: a period of mental and physical drowsiness.
                      No doubt many of us swaged into a slumbering zwodder after Christmas lunch, while contemplating what to do with the wonderclouts we may have received.
                      Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
                      Endless wonder.

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