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swive

verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /swaɪv/
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  • rhymes with -aɪv

1

verb

Meaning 1

To have sex with (someone).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: occupy, sard, jape, roger, fuck, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, root, run through, rut, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, dialectal, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: crop, gather, glean, harvest, mow

Antonyms: none provided

History

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”).

Across languages

Translations

1 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Russian: переспать (perespatʹ) — to copulate with