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zwabber

“zwabber” is a Dutch word. Its 16 meanings in English:

  1. a mop, implement for cleaning floors etc., especially aboard a vessel
  2. a dradenstoffer m
  3. a zeilveger m
  4. a cabin-boy, least senior sailor (apprentice), as he (or they) must most often do chores like manning the mop
  5. a ship officer on the guard duty kuilwacht
  6. an irresponsible person, notably:
  7. a party animal
  8. a squanderer
  9. a drunk, who staggers (compare etymology 2)
  10. a dirty person
  11. a dirtbag
  12. the tail of a fish or whale
  13. a swaggerer, staggerer
  14. a tramp, vagrant, hobo
  15. a beggar
  16. imperative
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