Swabbers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 185 anagrams from letters in swabbers (abberssw).
1585-95; Dutch zwabber; compare Middle Low German swabben to splash in water or filth
For the duty even of a swabber, he does not consider himself too high, but washes the deck most delicately clean.
I'm afraid the sea is too cold for me this morning, Mr. swabber.
Under the swabber there was a temporary rate known as the liar.
There was no place on board for a 'waister,' a 'swabber,' longshoreman, or sea labourer.