different between swive vs swire

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

Etymology

From Middle English swire, from Old English sw?ora, from Proto-Germanic *swerhô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa??/

Noun

swire (plural swires)

1. (obsolete) The neck.
2. A hollow between two hills or peaks, especially with a road running through it; a vale.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 33:

     As he approached the swire at the head of the dell […] , he beheld, to his astonishment, a bright halo in the cloud of haze, that rose in a semi-circle over his head like a pale rainbow.

Anagrams

• Rewis, Wires, Wiser, weirs, wiers, wires, wiser, wries

Scots

Alternative forms

• swyre

Etymology

From Old English sw?ora (Northumbrian sw?ra), or the cognate Old Norse svíra, from Proto-Germanic *swerhô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw?i(?)r/

Noun

swire (plural swires)

1. (obsolete) neck
2. (geography) vale, swire, valley