Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To perform the act of copulation with; have sexual intercourse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To copulate with (a woman).

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  • verb To reap, to cut for harvest.
  • verb obsolete To copulate with (a woman).

Etymologies

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From Middle English swiven, from Old English swīfan ("to move, sweep, wend, revolve"), from Proto-Germanic *swībanan (“to wipe, sweep”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)weip-, *(s)weib- (“to twist, wind around, swing, sweep, bend”). Cognate with Old Frisian swīva, swīfa ("to waver"), Old Norse svīfa ("to drift, ramble, rove"). Related to Old English swift ("swift"), Middle English swyvel ("swivel").

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Examples

  • It was a bold move, and one that showed her resourcefulness, since he most decidedly had not asked her to dance, knowing that it would only heighten his urge to carry her off and swive her senseless.

    How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011

  • It was a bold move, and one that showed her resourcefulness, since he most decidedly had not asked her to dance, knowing that it would only heighten his urge to carry her off and swive her senseless.

    How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011

  • It was a bold move, and one that showed her resourcefulness, since he most decidedly had not asked her to dance, knowing that it would only heighten his urge to carry her off and swive her senseless.

    A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010

  • It was a bold move, and one that showed her resourcefulness, since he most decidedly had not asked her to dance, knowing that it would only heighten his urge to carry her off and swive her senseless.

    A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010

  • It was a bold move, and one that showed her resourcefulness, since he most decidedly had not asked her to dance, knowing that it would only heighten his urge to carry her off and swive her senseless.

    A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010

  • And agree to swive all who dare slumber and sleep.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The twist is, Ranulph cannot now - um - swive the now orphaned Lady Maud Clifford, his love interest, because of her strong resemblance to her father.

    Fiction: Damn! An off-topic reversal zornhau 2006

  • "Don't take more than two or three minutes, no bones about the money, never wants nothin" but a simple swive.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • “But he surely wanted to swive—so he set me up here, kept me fed and clothed—trying to lift my skirts all the while.”

    Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002

  • “But he surely wanted to swive—so he set me up here, kept me fed and clothed—trying to lift my skirts all the while.”

    Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002

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  • to have sexual intercourse with somebody

    June 17, 2008

  • the writings of our dear departed John Wilmot always gave me the impression that it meant, specifically, to have filthy, libertinistic, crab-filled sex with a merkin'd moll or curious young boy

    April 20, 2009

  • "'You're drunk, sir," Newton said quite loudly. He was on his feet and was just about to speak even more loudly when he realised that people were looking at him and that the occasion was solemn, so he managed to restrain himself and merely bore down on the astonished Mr Teale and hissed in his ear, 'You're drunk, you swiving bastard, you poxed-up fucking son of a whore.'"

    --The Winner of Sorrow by Brian Lynch, p 93

    July 12, 2009