swive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To have sex with (someone).
  2. To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.

Pronunciation

/swaɪv/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swive.wav

Word forms

swive swives swiving swove swiven

Etymology

From Middle English swiven, from Old English swīfan (“to move, sweep, wend, revolve”), from Proto-Germanic *swībaną (“to wipe, sweep”). Cognate with Old Frisian swīva, swīfa (“to waver”), Old Norse svīfa (“to drift, ramble, rove”), Norwegian Nynorsk sviva (“to rotate, wander”). Related to Old English swift (“swift”), Middle English swyvel (“swivel”).

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