swive means to have sex with (someone).
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swive is pronounced /swaɪv/.
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”).
verb
- To have sex with (someone).e.g.“'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive” — c. 1674, John, Earl of Rochester Wilmot, A Satyr on Charles II:
- To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.e.g.“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 ...” — 1815, Walter Davies, Agricultural Surveys: pts. 1-2. South Wales (1815), Board of Agriculture, page 426:
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