swive, v. Obs. or arch.
(swaɪv)
Also 4–5 swyve, 5–6 swyfe, 6 swiff, swhyve; 5 (Sc.) pa. pple. swyffit, swywit, 6 (Sc.) pa. tense swiffit, swewyt.
[app. representing, with change of conjugation, and a specialized meaning not found in the cognate words, the OE. str. vb. sw{iacu}fan, pa. tense swáf, pa. pple. -swifen to move in a course, sweep.
OE. sw{iacu}fan corresponds to OFris. swîva to be uncertain, ON. sv{iacu}fa to rove, ramble, drift:—*swīban, f. Teut. swīb-: swaib-: swib- (cf. OHG. sweib swinging, sweibôn, MHG. schweiben to sway, hover, OFris. swif (?) sudden movement, vibration, ON. svif turn, veering of a ship, OHG. swebên, MHG. sweben, G. schweben to hover; see also swafe, swayve).]
1. trans. To have sexual connexion with, copulate with (a female).
| c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 664 Thus swyued was this Carpenteris wyf For al his kepyng and his Ialousye. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xiii. 2008 (Wemyss MS.) Thy dame wes swyffit [v.r. swywit] or þov wes borne. 1539 Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 159, I sell leid the to the place for the freir swewyt the. 1596 Sir J. Davies Epigrams ix, He sweares he hath foure onely swiude, A maide, a wife, a widow and a whoore. 1598 Florio s.v. Fottere. a 1722 Pennecuik Scots Poems (1756) 100 And why was all this mighty pother, But for to swive some jade or other? 1884 J. Payne Tales fr. Arabic I. 230 So he ate and drank and lay with her and swived her. |
2. intr. To copulate.
| c 1440 in Rel. Ant. (1843) II. 281 If he may wele swyfe. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiv. 67 The Feind me ryfe, Gif I do ocht bot drynk and swyfe. 1646 H. Mill Night's Search ii. 130 She scorn'd to swive Under a Crown, with any man alive. 1694 Wood Life 26 May (O.H.S.) III. 453 Mason, minister of Water Stratford in Bucks: he and his disciples..live in common... Eat, drink, and sleep, dance, swive. 1898 Secreta Secret. (E.E.T.S.) 76 marg., Don't bathe on a full stomach: nor swive. |
Hence swived ppl. a., ˈswiving vbl. n.; also † swive n., an act of swiving; ˈswiver, one who swives; one given to sexual indulgence.
| a 1300 Pol. Songs (Camden) 69 Richard of Alemaigne, whil that he wes kyng, He spende al is tresour opon swyvyng. c 1440 in Rel. Ant. (1843) II. 282 Mete and drynke thay hafe ynoghe, bot swyvyng thame wanntis. Ibid., And now are sary swywers brokyne owte of bande. c 1500 Blowbol's Test. 231 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 102 Alle feeble swyvers. c 1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 36 Wedow men þat wantis To steill a pair of swyvis. 1611 Cotgr., Chevaucherie, a riding; a swiuing. a 1680 Butler Characters, etc. (1908) App. 457 In the Scotch translation Genesis is rendered the Buke of Swiving. 1707 Markland in Hearne Collect. 30 Sept. (O.H.S.) II. 56 Drunkards and Swivers Are never long livers. a 1722 Pennecuik Scots Poems (1756) 101 The goddess, who lou'd swiving. 1869 Furnivall in Wright's Chaste Wife Pref. p. vii note, The swived wife and broken arm that he [sc. Chaucer] gives his befooled Oxford tradesman in the Milleres Tale. |