swiveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /swaɪv/
• 韻: -aɪv

動詞

swive (third-person singular simple present swives, present participle swiving, simple past swove, past participle swiven)

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

   Synonyms: occupy, sard, jape, roger, fuck; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

   • c. 1674, John, Earl of Rochester Wilmot, A Satyr on Charles II:

     'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive

   • 2005, Sophia B. Johnson, Risk Everything:

     “You were in such heat to swive me, you tore the clothes from your body.”

   • 2008, Sarah McKerrigan, Lady Danger:

     He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he? Surely he was not so heathen as that.

   • 2009, Bernard Cornwell, Gallows Thief:

     His mother was a holy damned fool and swiving her was like rogering a prayerful mouse, and the bloody fool thinks he's taken after her, but he hasn't.

   • 2019, Jodi Taylor, Argumentation of Historians:

     'Oh swive', said Markham. 'What the swive could those swiving swivers possibly swiving well want?'

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

   • 1815, Walter Davies, Agricultural Surveys: pts. 1-2. South Wales (1815), Board of Agriculture, page 426:

     The cradled scythes of the Vale of Towey were scarcely known in the Vale of Teivy; and the swiving method of reaping wheat in the latter, was as little known in the former ...

   • 1815, Walter Davies, General view of the agriculture and domestic economy of South Wales, Volume 1, Board of Agriculture, page 425:

     Swiving is a method first adopted apparently in Cardiganshire ...

   • 1905, Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, page 893:

     swive ... to cut grain or beans with a broad hook; to mow with a reaping-hook ... "swiver": a reaper who "swives" the grain

   • 1929, Mary Gladys Meredith Webb, Precious Bane:

     We started swiving, that is reaping, at the beginning of August-month, and we left the stooks [stalks] standing in the fields ...

   • 1955, Ceredigion: Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Association, volumes 2-3, Ceredigion Historical Society, page 160:

     Moreover, according to Walter Davies "swiving" was a method of reaping first adopted in Cardiganshire.

派生語

• swiver (noun)
• swiving (noun)

Further reading

• “swive”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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