swive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: swives
form: swiving
form: swived
form: swived
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”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive
ref: c. 1674, John, Earl of Rochester Wilmot, A Satyr on Charles II:
text: “You were in such heat to swive me, you tore the clothes from your body.”
ref: 2005, Sophia B. Johnson, Risk Everything:
text: He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he? Surely he was not so heathen as that.
ref: 2008, Sarah McKerrigan, Lady Danger:
text: His mother was a holy damned fool and swiving her was like rogering a prayerful mouse, and the bloody fool thinks he's taken after her, but he hasn't.
ref: 2009, Bernard Cornwell, Gallows Thief:
text: 'Oh swive', said Markham. 'What the swive could those swiving swivers possibly swiving well want?'
ref: 2019, Jodi Taylor, Argumentation of Historians:
synonyms: word: occupy
word: sard
word: jape
word: roger
word: fuck
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To copulate with (a woman).
examples: text: 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 ...
ref: 1815, Walter Davies, Agricultural Surveys: pts. 1-2. South Wales (1815), Board of Agriculture, page 426:
text: Swiving is a method first adopted apparently in Cardiganshire ...
ref: 1815, Walter Davies, General view of the agriculture and domestic economy of South Wales, Volume 1, Board of Agriculture, page 425:
text: swive ... to cut grain or beans with a broad hook; to mow with a reaping-hook ... "swiver": a reaper who "swives" the grain
ref: 1905, Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, page 893:
text: We started swiving, that is reaping, at the beginning of August-month, and we left the stooks [stalks] standing in the fields ...
ref: 1929, Mary Gladys Meredith Webb, Precious Bane:
text: Moreover, according to Walter Davies "swiving" was a method of reaping first adopted in Cardiganshire.
ref: 1955, Ceredigion: Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Association, volumes 2-3, Ceredigion Historical Society, page 160:
synonyms: crop
gather
glean
harvest
mow
glosses: To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.
Derived terms: word: swiver
word: swiving