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swyve

swyve is the alternative spelling of swive.

Meaning of swive

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
    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
    Synonyms:
    crop, gather, glean, harvest, mow

Forms of swyve

third-person singular presentswyves
present participleswyving
past participleswyved
pastswyved

Questions about swyve

What is swyve the alternative spelling of?
Swyve is the alternative spelling of swive.

Words near swyve in the dictionary

  1. swyped
  2. swypes
  3. swyping
  4. Swystun
  5. Swystuns
  6. swyve
  7. swyved
  8. swyves
  9. swyving
  10. sx
  11. sXe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swyve (page history and authors); swive (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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