Lexicographical Neighbors of Swerfed
Literary usage of Swerfed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"... will fay that he swerfed. Of the verbs before us, an Italian would foon find
out that a dirty ..."
2. The Songstresses of Scotland by Sarah Tytler, Jean L. Watson (1871)
"She was more footsore than if she had made another journey to London, more
faint-hearted than when she " swerfed" away after the reading of ..."
3. British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in by Hester Lynch Piozzi (1794)
"... will fay that he swerfed. Of the verbs before us, an Italian would foon find
out that a dirty ..."
4. The Songstresses of Scotland by Sarah Tytler, Jean L. Watson (1871)
"She was more footsore than if she had made another journey to London, more
faint-hearted than when she " swerfed" away after the reading of ..."
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