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swaddler (iou)



swaddler noun. slang (chiefly Anglo-Irish). derog. M18.
[from SWADDLE verb + -ER1, prob. after the frequent references in sermons to the infant Jesus in swaddling-clothes.]
Orig., (a nickname for) a Methodist, esp. a preacher. Now, (a nickname for) any Protestant.