▪ I. swadge
obs. form of swage v.1
▪ II. swadge, n. colloq.
(swɒdʒ)
[Of uncertain origin; prob. related to swad n.7, wadge (var. wodge n.). Cf. swatch n.1]
A chunk or mass.
| 1968 P. Dickinson Skin Deep v. 87 It was not a coherent document... There were three distinct beginnings, about seven different swadges of middle (some overlapping) and no ends. 1971 ― Sleep & his Brother iv. 79 The big rolls were warm.., the meat in them a steaming, oniony swadge. 1985 Observer 29 Sept. 23/1 Iris Murdoch has delivered up another vast festival of improbability..interlarded with great swadges of clever messy blistering thought. |