swive
/swaɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive"
- "“You were in such heat to swive me, you tore the clothes from your body.”"
- "He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he? Surely he was not so heathen as that."
- "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."
- ""Bring him to me. I want to meet the man of amazing beauty who has fascinated our Lanore." "If this is about bedding him, it won't do you any good. He's not—like Alejandro or Dona." […] "You think I am only interested in this man to swive him? You think that is my only use for a man such as your Jonathan? No, Lanore, I want to meet him. I want to see why he is so deserving of your love. […]""
- ""If I go back to Lucien's barge and swive him senseless, it is none of your concern.""
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: swiven, swīfan, *swībaną