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swabber

[swob-er] / ˈswɒb ər /




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As the days passed, the first colleague through the line each morning would text a scouting report to the rest of us about the aggressiveness of the swabber.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2022

The swabber working in the mobile Covid testing van parked at Conference House Park, Jesse Henry, said he was not vaccinated.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

Maybe five seconds per nostril with a six-inch swabber that reaches the sinus cavity where COVID-19 likes to live.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2020

Then, too, there were the purser, the quarter-masters, and the swabber.

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Leighton, Robert

Then follow further instructions as to conduct, which forbid any man to play at cards or dice, either for his apparel or arms, upon pain of being disarmed and made a swabber.

From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de