dial. Also 8 s.w. dial. zweepy. [? f. sweep-chimney (SWEEP- 2) + -Y dim. suffix. (Slightly earlier than SWEEP sb. 32; cf. SWEETIE.)] A chimney-sweep or his boy.
1798. T. Morton, Speed the Plough, I. ii. (1800), 10. Little zweepy do tell I he can zee a bit out from the top of the chimbley.
1825–80. Jamieson, Sweepie, a chimney sweeper, Aberd.
