swive
verb/swaɪv/
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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Archaic To have sex with (someone).
- 'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swivec. 1674, John, Earl of Rochester Wilmot, A Satyr on Charles II:
- “You were in such heat to swive me, you tore the clothes from your body.”2005, Sophia B. Johnson, Risk Everything:
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- He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he? Surely he was not so heathen as that.2008, Sarah McKerrigan, Lady Danger:
- His mother was a holy damned fool and swiving her was like rogering a prayerful mouse, and the bloody fool thinks he's taken after her, but he hasn't.2009, Bernard Cornwell, Gallows Thief:
- "Bring him to me. I want to meet the man of amazing beauty who has fascinated our Lanore." "If this is about bedding him, it won't do you any good. He's not—like Alejandro or Dona." […] "You think I am only interested in this man to swive him? You think that is my only use for a man such as your Jonathan? No, Lanore, I want to meet him. I want to see why he is so deserving of your love. […]"2011 09, Alma Katsu, The Taker, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 255:
- "If I go back to Lucien's barge and swive him senseless, it is none of your concern."2013 April 23, Kristen Callihan, Shadowdance, Hachette+ORM, →ISBN:
- The cradled scythes of the Vale of Towey were scarcely known in the Vale of Teivy; and the swiving method of reaping wheat in the latter, was as little known in the former ...1815, Walter Davies, Agricultural Surveys: pts. 1-2. South Wales (1815), Board of Agriculture, page 426:
- Swiving is a method first adopted apparently in Cardiganshire ...1815, Walter Davies, General view of the agriculture and domestic economy of South Wales, Volume 1, Board of Agriculture, page 425:
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- swive ... to cut grain or beans with a broad hook; to mow with a reaping-hook ... "swiver": a reaper who "swives" the grain1905, Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, page 893:
- We started swiving, that is reaping, at the beginning of August-month, and we left the stooks [stalks] standing in the fields ...1929, Mary Gladys Meredith Webb, Precious Bane:
- Moreover, according to Walter Davies "swiving" was a method of reaping first adopted in Cardiganshire.1955, Ceredigion: Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Association, volumes 2-3, Ceredigion Historical Society, page 160: