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2. Adjective. (context: UK dialectal) Dull; indolent; lazy. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: UK dialectal) Reluctant; unwilling; disinclined. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sweer

1. lazy [adj] - See also: lazy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweer

Literary usage of Sweer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Early Records of the City and County of Albany, and Colony of by Albany County (N.Y.), Albany Co., N.Y., Jonathan Pearson, Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer (1869)
"... sweer Theunisse [Van Velsen],i husbandman, dwelling in the Colonie Rensselaerswyck, who acknowledges that he is well and truly indebted to Geertruyt ..."

2. Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Resselaerswyck by Albany County (N.Y.), Jonathan Pearson, Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer (1918)
"Becker Johannes Provoost Settlement of accounts of Maerten Jansen and sweer Teunissen van Velsen with bond of Maerten Jansen [475 blank; ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"He wis sweer ti gan.'' " The beast wis deed sweers ti move." " Yet sweer is she to don the dress That's fitting for a bride." Robert White, Lady Jean. 1842. ..."

4. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"Thou art as young a man as I, And seem to be as sweer. Ballad of Robin Hood. ... sweer in the bed, and sweer up in the morning's, no a good house-wife. ..."

5. Early Records of the City and County of Albany, and Colony of by Albany County (N.Y.), Albany Co., N.Y., Jonathan Pearson, Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer (1869)
"... sweer Theunisse [Van Velsen],i husbandman, dwelling in the Colonie Rensselaerswyck, who acknowledges that he is well and truly indebted to Geertruyt ..."

6. Early Records of the City and County of Albany and Colony of Resselaerswyck by Albany County (N.Y.), Jonathan Pearson, Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer (1918)
"Becker Johannes Provoost Settlement of accounts of Maerten Jansen and sweer Teunissen van Velsen with bond of Maerten Jansen [475 blank; ..."

7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"He wis sweer ti gan.'' " The beast wis deed sweers ti move." " Yet sweer is she to don the dress That's fitting for a bride." Robert White, Lady Jean. 1842. ..."

8. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"Thou art as young a man as I, And seem to be as sweer. Ballad of Robin Hood. ... sweer in the bed, and sweer up in the morning's, no a good house-wife. ..."

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