different between swarth vs swarty

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw??(?)ð/ or IPA^(key): /sw??(?)?/

Etymology 1

Noun

swarth (countable and uncountable, plural swarthes or swarths)

1. Alternative form of sward

   • Last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths.

   • Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep.

Etymology 2

See swart.

Adjective

swarth (comparative more swarth, superlative most swarth)

1. (archaic) swarthy
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XII:

     […] What made those holes and rents / In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk / All hope of greenness? […]

Etymology 3

Noun

swarth

1. An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Warths, warths, wraths

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sweard.

Noun

swarth

1. Alternative form of sward

Etymology 2

From Old English swaþu; influenced by the above noun.

Noun

swarth

1. Alternative form of swathe (“swath”)

English

Etymology

From swart +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw??(?)ti/

Adjective

swarty (comparative more swarty, superlative most swarty)

1. swarthy; tawny

Anagrams

• sawtry, strawy, wastry