swike
/swaɪk/
swike verb: to deceive, cheat; betray.
Verb
swike (third-person singular simple present swikes, present participle swiking, simple past swoke, past participle swicken)
- To deceive, cheat; betray.
- Synonyms:
- double-cross, sell out, stab in the back, assfuck, betray, burn, cop out, cross out, cross up, do someone dirty
- To stop, cease.
Adjective
swike (comparative more swike, superlative most swike)
- Deceitful; treacherous.
- Synonyms:
- guiled, perfidious, trothless, beguiling, deceitful, deceptious, deceptive, deceptory, fallacious, fraudful
Noun
swike (plural swikes)
- Deceit; treachery.
- A deceiver; betrayer, traitor.
- The Saxon Chronicle contradicts itself as to Algar's outlawry, stating in one passage that he was outlawed without any kind of guilt, and in another that he was outlawed as swike, or traitor, and that he made a confession of it before all the men there gathered.1848, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Harold, the Last of the Saxons
- Synonyms:
- rat, renegade, treasonist, backstabber, betrayer, cockatrice, double-crosser, quisling, ratter, recreant
- A hiding place; den; cave.
Synonyms of swike
- double-cross
- sell out
- stab in the back
- assfuck
- betray
- burn
- cop out
- cross out
- cross up
- do someone dirty
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Forms of swike
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | swikes |
| present participle | swiking |
| past | swoke |
| past participle | swicken |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more swike |
| superlative | most swike |
| Noun | |
| plural | swikes |
Origin of swike
From Middle English swiken, from Old English swīcan (“to wander, depart, cease from, yield, give way, fail, fall short, be wanting, abandon, desert, turn traitor, deceive, rebel”), from Proto-West Germanic *swīkwan, from Proto-Germanic *swīkwaną (“to dodge, swerve, avoid, betray”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyg- (“to turn, move around, wander, swing”).
Words that rhyme with swike
Questions about swike
- What does swike mean?
- Swike means to deceive, cheat; betray.
- What part of speech is swike?
- Swike can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce swike?
- Swike is pronounced /swaɪk/.
- What is the past tense of swike?
- The past tense of swike is swoke.
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