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”).
Definitions
To have sex with (someone).
- 'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive
- “You were in such heat to swive me, you tore the clothes from your body.”
- He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he? Surely he was not so heathen as that.
To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap
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 ...
- Swiving is a method first adopted apparently in Cardiganshire ...
- swive ... to cut grain or beans with a broad hook; to mow with a reaping-hook ... "swiver": a reaper who "swives" the grain
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA