I'm about to swither and prevaricate for a bit when my phone rings again.

What signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither?

Strong cruel brutes, they did not swither a moment, but both leaped at M'Iver's throat.

It found Janet still "in a swither." She could not divest herself of the idea that she was forsaking "the bairns."

Before the afternoon the air was dark with a swither of foam and spray blown off the waves in the thickness of a fog.

Then, very abruptly, fixing his eyes on me, all of a swither, with my milk-stained cap in my hand, "And whom have we here?"

If I hae swithered in my loyalty before, I'll do sae nae mair.

She has a rich relation up at Thayetmyo, and she's swithering between love and money.

But I was equally keen on books, reading and the associated pleasures, and hence swithered between museums and publishing.

Indeed he was "swithering" whether, or not, he should take this opportunity of bidding farewell to Pittenloch.

Swithers thinks she knows.

"I wish you had been so certain of that a little ago," she said; "you seem very much on the swither.