"swive" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /swaɪv/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-swive.wav [Southern-England] Forms: swives [present, singular, third-person], swiving [participle, present], swived [participle, past], swived [past]
Rhymes: -aɪv Etymology: From Middle English swiven, from Old English swīfan (“to move, sweep, wend, revolve”), from Proto-Germanic *swībaną (“to wipe, sweep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around, swing, sweep, bend”). 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”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|swiven}} Middle English swiven, {{inh|en|ang|swīfan||to move, sweep, wend, revolve}} Old English swīfan (“to move, sweep, wend, revolve”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*swībaną||to wipe, sweep}} Proto-Germanic *swībaną (“to wipe, sweep”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*weyp-||to twist, wind around, swing, sweep, bend}} Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around, swing, sweep, bend”), {{cog|ofs|swīva}} Old Frisian swīva, {{m|ofs|swīfa||to waver}} swīfa (“to waver”), {{cog|non|svífa|svīfa|to drift, ramble, rove}} Old Norse svīfa (“to drift, ramble, rove”), {{cog|nn|sviva||to rotate, wander}} Norwegian Nynorsk sviva (“to rotate, wander”), {{cog|ang|swift||swift}} Old English swift (“swift”), {{cog|enm|swyvel||swivel}} Middle English swyvel (“swivel”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} swive (third-person singular simple present swives, present participle swiving, simple past and past participle swived)
  1. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a woman). Tags: archaic, transitive Categories (topical): Sex Synonyms: occupy, sard, jape, roger, fuck, copulate with Translations (to copulate with): переспать (perespatʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-swive-en-verb-9pp4tQvI Disambiguation of Sex: 81 19 Disambiguation of 'to copulate with': 99 1
  2. (archaic, transitive, dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. Tags: archaic, dialectal, transitive Synonyms: crop, gather, glean, harvest, mow
    Sense id: en-swive-en-verb-Y2eFdyE8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: swiver [noun], swiving [noun]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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