swazzle means A device to change the voice to make it more raspy, used in Punch and Judy performances. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
swazzle is pronounced /ˈswɒz(ə)l/.
Etymology
From swatchel, probably from German schwätzeln, from schwatzen.
noun
- A device to change the voice to make it more raspy, used in Punch and Judy performances
verb
- To speak using a swazzle.“Of course there was more to swazzling than what I could do instinctively. I had to learn to switch from the swazzled voice of Punch to the pantomime-dame voice of Judy.”