Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See swough.
  • To swear (a mild oath).

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  • noun Obsolete form of swoon.

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Examples

  • "Thet-thar Zeke Higgins," he ventured, somewhat indistinctly through his matting of whiskers, "I swow if he hain't got right feelin's, fer all he's so durn peart."

    Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

  • I strove to think o 'suthin' to say, all the time he was here, but I swow I couldn't think o 'nothin'.

    Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

  • "She het up some kinder hot tea -- like ter burnt all the skin off my tongue and throat, I swow!" pursued Walky.

    How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

  • Then he came down straight and struck that rock an awful blow -- 'swow!'

    Indian Why Stories 1915

  • Ho! it was a funny race they made, over the grass, over smaller stones, and over logs that lay in the way, but Old-man managed to keep ahead until he stubbed his toe on a big sage-brush, and fell -- swow!

    Indian Why Stories 1915

  • Then he came down straight and struck that rock an awful blow -- 'swow!'

    Indian Why Stories Frank Bird Linderman 1903

  • Ho! it was a funny race they made, over the grass, over smaller stones, and over logs that lay in the way, but OLD-man managed to keep ahead until he stubbed his toe on a big sage-brush, and fell -- swow!

    Indian Why Stories Frank Bird Linderman 1903

  • "Well, I swow!" ejaculated the Cap'n, rubbing his knurly forefinger under his nose, and glancing first at the parrots and then at the lady.

    The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

  • "Pink won't let me say 'I swow,' 'cause it's vulgar; an 'if I say' by 'anything, Ma says it's swearin', -- an 'I can't swear, nohow!"

    Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • By Gosh, he gave 'em a warm time of it, on my swow, didn't he!

    Athelstane Ford Allen Upward 1894

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