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zwabber

Pronunciation: /ˈzʋɑ.bər/

“zwabber” is a Dutch word. Its 15 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a mop, implement for cleaning floors etc., especially aboard a vessel
  2. a dradenstoffer m
  3. a zeilveger m
  4. a cabin-boy, least senior sailor (apprentice), as he (or they) must most often do chores like manning the mop
  5. a ship officer on the guard duty kuilwacht
  6. a party animal
  7. a squanderer
  8. a drunk, who staggers (compare etymology 2)
  9. a dirty person
  10. a dirtbag
  11. the tail of a fish or whale
  12. a swaggerer, staggerer
  13. a tramp, vagrant, hobo
  14. a beggar
  15. a form of the cards game pandoeren, without trumps or points

Etymology

Probably the root of zwabben (from swabben 'to plod(der), drudge trough (filth)(y) (water)', cognate with to swab) + -er.

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