Swiftie
See also: swiftie
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- enPR: swĭft′ē
- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈswɪft.iː/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file)
- (General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈswɪft.i/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈswəft.iː/
- (India) IPA(key): /ˈswɪfʈ.iː/
- Rhymes: -ɪfti
- Hyphenation: Swift‧ie
Noun
Swiftie (plural Swifties)
- (informal) An enthusiastic fan of American singer-songwriter and actress Taylor Swift.
- 2012 April, Ina Esclamado, “Taylor Swift”, in Cord Music Magazine, page 26:
- Today was the day, and it hadn't fully hit me till that very moment when the doors opened and I was rushing to the front of the stage and standing amongst the thousands of fellow Swifties.
- 2013, Sean Keeley, "Grammys: the good, the bad and the ugly", The Heights (Boston College), Volume 94, Number 8, 14 February 2013, page B4:
- Even for devoted Swifties, it's hard to deny that her surrealist nightmare of a Grammy performance was a definite miscalculation.
- 2013, Colin Orthmann, "Party Animals", Sound, Phrase & Fury, Volume 1, Issue 5, September/October 2013, page 35:
- “RED” makes you think of Taylor Swift, so maybe we can get some confused Swifties to buy our album.