Swell Foop

{{short description|2001 novel by Piers Anthony}}

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{{Infobox book |

| name = Swell Foop

| image = Swell Foop cover.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = Piers Anthony

| country = United States

| language = English

| cover_artist = Darrell K. Sweet
Carol Russo Design

| genre = Fantasy

| publisher = Tor Books

| release_date = October 2001

| media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

| pages = 292 (first edition, hardback)

| isbn = 0-312-86906-1

| isbn_note = (first edition, hardback)

| dewey= 813/.54 21

| congress= PS3551.N73 S86 2001

| oclc= 47136701

| preceded_by = The Dastard

| followed_by = Up In A Heaval

}}

Swell Foop is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-fifth book of the Xanth series.{{cite book|author1=Janet Husband|author2=Jonathan F. Husband|title=Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tBUlCAwAtNwC&pg=PA26|year=2009|publisher=American Library Association|isbn=978-0-8389-0967-6|page=26}}

The title is taken from a spoonerism for the Shakespearean phrase "one fell swoop," famously (but not first){{cite book|title=The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English|date=2009|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780415371827|page=715|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5F-YNZRv-VMC&q=%22one+swell+foop%22&pg=PA715|editor=Tom Dalzell|accessdate=24 February 2014|quote=one swell foop noun Used as a humorous reversal of "one fell swoop" US, 1900}} spoken by the tongue-twisted Peter Sellers character in the 1964 movie The Pink Panther.