different between swive vs snive

English

Etymology

From Middle English swiven, from Old English sw?fan (“to move, sweep, wend, revolve”), from Proto-Germanic *sw?ban? (“to wipe, sweep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyp- (“to twist, wind around, swing, sweep, bend”). Cognate with Old Frisian sw?va, sw?fa (“to waver”), Old Norse sv?fa (“to drift, ramble, rove”), Norwegian Nynorsk sviva (“to rotate, wander”). Related to Old English swift (“swift”), Middle English swyvel (“swivel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Verb

swive (third-person singular simple present swives, present participle swiving, simple past and past participle swived)

1. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a woman).

   Synonyms: go to bed with, sard, jape, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
2. (archaic, transitive, dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.

   Synonyms: crop, gather, glean, harvest, mow

Derived terms

• swiver (noun)
• swiving (noun)

Translations

Further reading

• “swive”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• views, wives

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: sn?v, IPA^(key): /sna?v/
• (UK) enPR: sn?v, IPA^(key): /sn??v/

Verb

snive (third-person singular simple present snives, present participle sniving, simple past and past participle snived)

1. Alternative spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested).

Anagrams

• Nevis, Viens, Vines, veins, vines, visne