swizzle stick (swizlstik)

A stick or whisk used in making swizzles and other drinks: in China and Japan usually made of bamboo. [Colloq.] Fallen from their high estate, they [the West India Islands) are to-day chiefly a ociated with such petty transactions as the production of swizzle - sticks and guava jelly. Elect. Rev. (Eng.), XXVII. 777. swob, v . and n . See swab1 . swobber, n. See swabber .