Swisser

English Alternative forms en Swizzer Etymology From en gmh Swycer, gmh Schwyczer, variants of gmh Sweitzer Switzer; or from en fr Suisse en er occupation. Noun en obsolete A native of Switzerland; a Swiss. 16th 18th c. 1601, ‘WT’, translating Lord Remy of Florence, Civill considerations vpon many and svndrie histories, p. 111: Being impossible to conclude and accord any agreement betweene the Pope and the King of France, the Swissers came to serue the Pope, of whose valour and power the French stood much in feare. en 1603 w:John Florio Michel de Montaigne Essays III.13 A Spaniard can not well brooke to feede after our fashion, nor we endure to drinke as the Swizzers. en 1604 w:William Shakespeare Hamlet IV.5 Where is my Swissers, let them guard the doore. en 1624 Vox Cœli, or News from Heaven Somer's Tracts II 1809 London The Austrian Princes and the Swissers, I have still heard, are from father to sonne, hereditary and irreconcilable enimies. Anagrams en eirsssw Wissers en 2-syllable words