swizzle

1. 1.

   any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice

   Broadermixed drink

Other forms of swizzle

plural

swizzles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swizzle

What does swizzle mean?

swizzle means "any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice".

How many syllables are in swizzle?

swizzle has 2 syllables: swiz-zle. The stress falls on "swiz".

Is swizzle a common word?

swizzle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.