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in reply to a message by Frollein Gladys
Swaja is an alteration of Polish Szwaja (see tinyurl.com/cqz3uy5, for example) which is glossed in Hoffman's dictionary as a 'contemptuous term for a seamstress, needlewoman' (which is szwaczka in Polish).
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