swobbing

Updated: April 30, 2025

'Oh! what am I to do, captain, jewel? she bounced into the room, with flaming face and eyes swelled, and the end of her apron, with which she had been swobbing them, in her hand, while she gesticulated, with her right; 'there, he's off again to Island Bridge, the owdacious sneak! It's all that dirty hussy's doing.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard