subs. phr. (old).—Any weak beverage; SLOPS (q.v.).
1577. W. HARRISON, The Description of England [HOLINSHED], 170. There is a kind of SWISH-SWASH made also in Essex, and diverse other places, with honicombs and water, which the homelie countrie wives, putting some pepper and a little other spice among, call mead, verie good in mine opinion for such as love to be loose-bodied at large, or a little eased of the cough; otherwise it differeth so much from the true metheglin as chalke from cheese.
1884. S. DOWELL, A History of Taxation and Taxes in England, iv. 55. The small sour SWISH-SWASH of the poorer vintages of France.
