swaddler n OED ~ Ir (1747-) ~ EDD (1) Ir. Term of opprobrium for a Methodist.
1866 WILSON 156 The society which Mr Hoskins formed [c1780] in Old Perlican"was called Hoskinites by their enemies; and sometimes the cognomen Swaddlers, imported from Ireland, was shouted, as the members went or returned from their religious meetings.
