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swive¹

  • /swaɪv/

Rhymes with -aɪv

Where it comes from

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”).

verb swives · swiving · swove · swiven

  1. archaic, transitive To have sex with (someone). 'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive

    Similar: occupy, sard, jape, roger, fuck, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague

  2. archaic, dialectal, transitive 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 ...

    Similar: crop, gather, glean, harvest, mow

swive²

  • /swaɪv/

Rhymes with -aɪv

Where it comes from

Blend of swim + dive

noun

  1. uncountable The sports of swimming and diving, taken collectively.

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verb to copulate with

Русскийпереспать perespatʹ

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@misc{swive_2026,
  title = {swive},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/swive},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}