swazzle

plural swazzles · alternative swatchel · alternative swozzle

1. A device to change the voice to make it more raspy, used in Punch and Judy performances

present singular third person swazzles · participle present swazzling · participle past swazzled · past swazzled · alternative swatchel · alternative swozzle

1. ambitransitiveTo speak using a swazzle.

   In the background, Mr Punch could be heard swazzling, “That's the way to do it!”

   2018, Robert Charles Hines, Twists and Turns: 13 Tales of the Uneasy, page 126

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   Of course there was more to swazzling than what I could do instinctively. I had to learn to switch from the swazzled voice of Punch to the pantomime-dame voice of Judy.

   2005, Bill Drummond, Mark Manning, The Wild Highway, page 384