Meaning

(archaic, transitive) To have sex with (someone)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic, transitive) To have sex with (someone).
2. (archaic, transitive, dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.

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."

'Oh swive', said Markham. 'What the swive could those swiving swivers possibly swiving well want?'

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 ...

Word Forms

• swives
• swiving
• swove
• swiven

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