swift
noun/swɪft/
/swɪft/
- a small bird with long, narrow wings, similar to a swallowTopics Birdsc2Word OriginOld English (as an adjective), from the Germanic base of Old English swīfan ‘move in a course, sweep’. The bird name dates from the mid 17th cent.
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