03-05-2025
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- The Herald Scotland
A cheering Scots Word of the Week: Swats
The term made it into the 20th century, as seen in the following from John Black's Gloamin Glints (1913): 'A bottle of old-time 'swats' or homemade ale, was procured for twopence from a little shop near'.
Later, we have a poetic example from William Neil in his Making Tracks (1988): 'Swats made nae bliddie corses oniwey, in boattle, tankard, tassie, gless or joug'.
