swob

American

[swob] / swɒb /

noun

Archaic.

swobbed, swobbing

an archaic spelling of swab.

swob British

/ swɒb /

noun

a less common word for swab

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swob swobbed

If you swob yourself carefully with this, you will not become diseased.

From Safe Marriage A Return to Sanity by William Arbuthnot Lane

They realized from the way I swobbed my neck More than was needed something must be up.

From North of Boston by Robert Frost

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