Cards. Obs. [Cf. SWIG v.1 It is not certain that the quots. refer to the same game. Quot. c. 1700 suggests derivation from a form related to OE. swiʓian, SWIE, to be silent.] (See quots.)
1598. Florio, Trinca, a game at cards called swig or new cut.
c. 1700. Kennett, in MS. Lansd. 1033, lf. 398 (Hall.). A sort of play at cards in the North, in which all the gamesters are to be silent, is calld swig.
