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swive

/swaɪv/

swive verb: to have sex with (someone).

Verb

swive (third-person singular simple present swives, present participle swiving, simple past swove, past participle swiven)

  1. (archaic, transitive) 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
    Synonyms:
    occupy, sard, jape, roger, fuck, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight
  2. (archaic, dialectal, transitive) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    crop, gather, glean, harvest, mow

Examples of swive in a sentence

  • He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he?2008, Sarah McKerrigan, Lady Danger:
  • He's not—like Alejandro or Dona." […] "You think I am only interested in this man to swive him?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:
  • 'What the swive could those swiving swivers possibly swiving well want?'2019, Jodi Taylor, Argumentation of Historians:

Synonyms of swive

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Forms of swive

third-person singular presentswives
present participleswiving
pastswove
past participleswiven

Origin of swive

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”).

Words formed from swive

Words that rhyme with swive

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Questions about swive

What does swive mean?
Swive means to have sex with (someone).
How do you use swive in a sentence?
He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he?
What part of speech is swive?
Swive is a verb.
How do you pronounce swive?
Swive is pronounced /swaɪv/.
What is the past tense of swive?
The past tense of swive is swove.

Words near swive in the dictionary

  1. Switzerland
  2. Switzerland County
  3. Switzerlander
  4. Switzerlanders
  5. Switzers
  6. swive
  7. swived
  8. swivel
  9. swivel chair
  10. swivel chairs
  11. swivel eye

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