swive

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To have sex with (someone). archaic,transitive
    — 'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive
  2. To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. archaic,dialectal,transitive
    — 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 ...

词形变化

swives present,singular,third-person swiving participle,present swove past swiven participle,past

词汇关系

衍生词
swivel swiver swiving

词源

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”).
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