Noun : I was in such a swivet that I could hardly speak.    From Dictionary.com. 

I know, we're getting into a linguistic swivet (ph) here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2006] Reference

Gasped Agnes, shocked by the request into an unwanted swivet.    From Wordnik.com.  [vignette: zombies (for andrew)] Reference

The specter of an Obama presidency has anti-gay forces in a swivet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wayne Besen: Palin's All Dressed Up and Plotting] Reference

Did you do that deliberately just to get us cranky old farts all in a swivet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [BLESS YOU, DAVID!!!.....] Reference

There was very little hoopla in the press last week, and scholarly economics is in something of swivet over the award.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economic Principals] Reference

When he nodded she told him how it had been-how the Tanu examiner at Castle Gateway had been astonished, then terrified at the result of her mental assay, throwing the entire establishment into a swivet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

Apple censors threads swivet on Wednesday, October 15 2008 @ 12: 20 PM PDT.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacFixIt] Reference

I'm only surprised that people can still get into a swivet about any depravity taking place in TEc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand Firm] Reference

I have heard of one such domicile on Lohret Road where this Sunday is likely to generate a fabulous swivet.    From Wordnik.com.  [poststar.com RSS] Reference

It doesn't take much to get John and Ken into a swivet - the radio duo's fan base was built on indignation - but this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference

People are in a swivet over its ever-more-lax privacy settings, but really, aren't we just hurt because we thought it was our friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Officials said the evacuations were precautionary but some parents went into a swivet, demanding to know why the schools had not been checked when they were empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

That means pretty much everybody, including a bunch of politicians who came to the party very, very late and now are in a professional public swivet that's honing in on you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com] Reference

At the supper table in my boarding-house that evening I found a sickly old Yankee minister loafing in Richmond for his health, in a swivet of excitement about Jasper and his coming oration.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher] Reference

Noemie Emery wrote in The Weekly Standard Refusing to take Ronald Reagan's famous advice -- don't just do something, stand there -- conservative machers are all in a swivet, reading the leaves of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Singleton] Reference

"I've been in such a swivet" It may not do any good, but at least I can try.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wrinkle in Time]

According to Andrew Morton’s authorized account Monica’s Story, Lewinsky flew into a swivet when she was once stopped at the White House gate on her way to a hoped-for meeting to deliver Christmas gifts to the president.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comeback Id] Reference

Yours in a swivet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grammarphobia Blog » Blog Archive » Captious reasoning] Reference

"Got yourself in a rare swivet, have ye no?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference

Thanks for introducing me to the word “swivet.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [IDiots can't read. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference