sweap

Updated: May 22, 2025

These were: "Strew two shuffefuls of ashes into the volt, but don't spill two shuffefuls onto the floor. By order of the Gurl who has to sweap up." This order was emphatically approved of by those fastidious ones who didn't have to "sweep up."

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891