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swive.

To have sex with (someone).

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/swaɪv/
  1. To have sex with (someone).

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

    archaic · dialectal · transitive
Where this word 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”).

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