Swive Definition

swīv
swived, swiving
verb
To have sexual intercourse (with)
Webster's New World

To copulate with (a woman).

Wiktionary

(dialectal) To reap; cut for harvest.

We started swiving, that is reaping, at the beginning of August-month, and we left the stooks [stalks] standing in the fields... - Mary Webb, Precious Bane.
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Origin of Swive

  • From Middle English swiven, from Old English swÄ«fan (“to move, sweep, wend, revolve"), from Proto-Germanic *swÄ«banÄ… (“to wipe, sweep"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)weip-, *(s)weib- (“to twist, wind around, swing, sweep, bend"). Cognate with Old Frisian swÄ«va, swÄ«fa (“to waver"), Old Norse svÄ«fa (“to drift, ramble, rove"). Related to Old English swift (“swift"), Middle English swyvel (“swivel").

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