swab

• n. 綿棒; [外科用]綿棒; 医療用スポンジ、ガーゼ; モップ、ほうき; ローグ
• vt.掃除する、拭く；（薬を）塗る

swabber、モップ、特に甲板を掃くためのモップ、オランダ語のzwabberから略され、原ゲルマン語*swabb、モップをかける、に由来し、おそらくモップをかける音を模倣したオノマトペに由来する。後に医療用の綿棒、スワブを指す言葉として使われるようになり、主流となった。

swab (n.)

1650s, "mop made of rope or yarn," from swabber (c. 1600) "mop for cleaning a ship's deck," from Dutch zwabber, akin to West Frisian swabber "mop," from Proto-Germanic *swabb-, perhaps of imitative origin, denoting back-and-forth motion, especially in liquid.

Non-nautical meaning "anything used for mopping up" is from 1787; as "cloth or sponge on a handle to cleanse the mouth, etc.," from 1854. Slang meaning "a sailor" first attested 1798, short for swabber "member of a ship's crew assigned to swab decks" (1590s), which by c. 1600 was being used in a broader sense of "one who behaves like a low-ranking sailor, one fit only to use a swab."

swab (v.)

1719, possibly a back-formation from swabber (see swab (n.)). Related: Swabbed; swabbing. Related: Swabification "mopping" (1833).

1. to take a throat swab

綿棒を用いて咽頭部から化学検査サンプルを採取

2.Yet I kind of think I 've-yes，I 've seen the swab .

でも、私は覚えているようです--はい、私はこの犬のものを見たことがあります.

-金銀島

3.Administer the salve to the sunburned area with a cotton swab .

日焼けした場所に綿棒で軟膏を当ててください.

4.We have to swab out the sitting-room before your mother comes back.

お母さんが帰ってくる前にリビングルームをきれいに拭かなければなりません。

5.She used cotton wool to swab her wounds when they bled.

傷口から滲出した血は綿で消す必要がある。