Meanings
comparative more zowerswopped · superlative most zowerswopped · alternative zowerzapped · alternative zower-zapped
- West CountryExmoorSynonym of bad-tempered.
Who hasn't felt zowerswopped to find one's mailbox pragged with junk mail?
1993 April 27, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn.: Gannett Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page C12 more examples
"Did he understand you?" said Campbell. "O yes, for he called out to his men in Dutchified French, and looked at me zowerswopped enough.[…]"
1834, John Brent, chapter XIX, in Leitch Ritchie, editor, The Sea-Wolf. A Romance of “The Free Traders.” (The Library of Romance; XI), London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC, page 185I'm even more zowerswopped because I don't know for sure yet if I'm heavy-footed.
1993, Susan Kelz Sperling, Lost Words of Love, New York, N.Y.: C. Potter, →ISBN, page 50Synonyms: bad-tempered, ill-natured
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of bad-tempered.
Origin
A dialectal form of sour-sapped (literally “being sour or foul-tempered to the core or marrow”).
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