Pronounced: aws
Notes: An interesting word, but I didn’t know it
Yesterday’s word
The word swivet is “a state of extreme agitation”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
I have not run across our word, but I have (and probably you have, too) heard other words that fit the phrase “he got into a swivet about X” – I can think of “sweat”, “lather”, “tether”, and “tizzy”, and I’m sure there are other. The origin of our word is unknown.
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