swive

[ swahyv ]

verb (used with object)

, swived, swiv·ing.

1. to copulate with.

verb (used without object)

, swived, swiv·ing.

1. to copulate.

swive

/ swaɪv /

verb

1. archaic.
   to have sexual intercourse with (a person)

Word History and Origins

Origin of swive¹

1350–1400; Middle English swiven; apparently special use of Old English swīfan to move, wend, sweep; swift, swivel

Word History and Origins

Origin of swive¹

Old English swīfan to revolve, swivel

Example Sentences

In Shakespeare’s day the equivalent term was “swive,” which was far stronger.

From Salon

Fritz, the hero, is what the average campus revolutionary was in the late '60s�a fool tabby, living off vicarious experience, with his head full of windy sub-Marcusian rhetoric and only one ambition: to swive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Salacious Tavern and ye taverner-host, From Pileate Brothers the ninth pile-post, D'ye claim, you only of the mentule boast, D'ye claim alone what damsels be the best 5To swive: as he-goats holding all the rest?

From Project Gutenberg

Quoth Mehmoud, 'I will give thee neither mule nor clothes nor merchandise save at this price; for I am mad for love of thee, and God bless him who said: Abou Bilal his saw of an object of love, Which from one of his      elders himself did derive "The lover's not healed of the pangs of desire By clips nor by      kisses, excepting he swive."

From Project Gutenberg

An if thou swive me not forthright, as one should swive his      wife, If thou be made a cuckold straight, reproach it not to      me.

From Project Gutenberg