English
Swedey
Blend of swede + Sweeney, the latter being Cockney rhyming slang (Sweeney Todd) for the Flying Squad, and the former a reference to agriculture, since the investigators were drawn from rural police forces.
The story
Blend of swede + Sweeney, the latter being Cockney rhyming slang (Sweeney Todd) for the Flying Squad, and the former a reference to agriculture, since the investigators were drawn from rural police forces.
Today it means
name The Operation Countryman team, who led an investigation into police corruption in London, England in the late 1970s.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Swedey