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mainswear

mainswear is the alternative form of manswear.

Meaning of manswear

Verb

manswear (third-person singular simple present manswears, present participle manswearing, simple past manswore, past participle mansworn)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To swear falsely; perjure oneself.
    • I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page...
    Synonyms:
    misswear

Forms of mainswear

third-person singular presentmainswears
present participlemainswearing
pastmainswore
past participlemainsworn

Questions about mainswear

What is mainswear the alternative form of?
Mainswear is the alternative form of manswear.

Words near mainswear in the dictionary

  1. mainstreet
  2. mainstreeting
  3. mainstreets
  4. mainstretch
  5. mainstretches
  6. mainswear
  7. mainswearing
  8. mainswears
  9. mainswore
  10. mainsworn
  11. Maint.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mainswear (page history and authors); manswear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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