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Definition of Swiving
1. swive [v] - See also: swive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swiving
Literary usage of Swiving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"See swiving-hook, below. ... most part Welshmen, go—at harvest-time—in gangs to
the farm-houses to be hired for reaping. Cf. Shearers. swiving-HOOK, #1>. ..."
2. Jyl of Breyntfords Testament by Robert Copland, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Gascoigne (1871)
"Following it is the incomplete Maidenhead-Balade that disputes with the swiving
one the title to being Chaucer's. Either or both may well have been written ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"*swiving. Mowing with a reap-hook [BN 37]. Swob. (i) A very awkward fellow, who
seems fit only for coarse drudgery. It is our form of the sea-term ..."
4. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1851)
"... and swiving, Gentle Kitt, learne more witt then goe a wiving. The minstrell
was an asse And liv'd by scraping, His lusty kindred was Not worth the ..."
5. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1851)
"... and swiving, Gentle Kitt, learne more witt then goe a wiving. The minstrell
was an asse And liv'd by scraping, His lusty kindred was Not worth the ..."
6. Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse by Thomas Robert Smith (1922)
"... alway thy palace was filled: Then that thou learn of these which were most
potent of swiving, Wont wast thou to bespeak, saying to suitors erect:— "Than ..."
7. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"See swiving-hook, below. ... most part Welshmen, go—at harvest-time—in gangs to
the farm-houses to be hired for reaping. Cf. Shearers. swiving-HOOK, #1>. ..."
8. Jyl of Breyntfords Testament by Robert Copland, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Gascoigne (1871)
"Following it is the incomplete Maidenhead-Balade that disputes with the swiving
one the title to being Chaucer's. Either or both may well have been written ..."
9. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"*swiving. Mowing with a reap-hook [BN 37]. Swob. (i) A very awkward fellow, who
seems fit only for coarse drudgery. It is our form of the sea-term ..."
10. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1851)
"... and swiving, Gentle Kitt, learne more witt then goe a wiving. The minstrell
was an asse And liv'd by scraping, His lusty kindred was Not worth the ..."
11. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1851)
"... and swiving, Gentle Kitt, learne more witt then goe a wiving. The minstrell
was an asse And liv'd by scraping, His lusty kindred was Not worth the ..."
12. Poetica Erotica: A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse by Thomas Robert Smith (1922)
"... alway thy palace was filled: Then that thou learn of these which were most
potent of swiving, Wont wast thou to bespeak, saying to suitors erect:— "Than ..."
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