Swive vs Skive - What's the difference?
swive | skive |
To copulate with (a woman).
* c.1674 , John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II
* 2005 , Sophia B. Johnson, Risk Everything :
* 2008 , Sarah McKerrigan, Lady Danger :
* 2009 , Bernard Cornwell, Gallows Thief :
(dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.
* 1815 , Walter Davies, Board of Agriculture, Agricultural Surveys: pts. 1-2. South Wales (1815) , page 426
* 1815 , Walter Davies, Board of Agriculture, General view of the agriculture and domestic economy of South Wales, Volume 1 , page 425
* 1905 , Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary , page 893
* 1929 , Mary Gladys Meredith Webb, Precious Bane
* 1955 , Ceredigion Historical Society, Ceredigion: Journal of the Cardiganshire Antiquarian Association - Volumes 2-3 , page 160
The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
* 2009 , Nicoline van der Sijs, Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages ,
To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).
(British) To avoid one's lessons or, sometimes, work. Chiefly at school or university.
* 2006 , The Economist,
a disc (UK) or disk (US)
a washer (small disc with a hole in the middle )
a slice (e.g. slice of bread )
As verbs the difference between swive and skive
is that swive is to copulate with (a woman) while skive is to pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).As a noun skive is
the iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.swive
English
Verb
(swiv)- 'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive
- “You were in such heat to swive me, you tore the clothes from your body.”
- He didn't intend to swive her here in the tiltyard, did he? Surely he was not so heathen as that.
- 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.
- 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 ...
- Swiving is a method first adopted apparently in Cardiganshire ...
- swive' ... to cut grain or beans with a broad hook; to mow with a reaping-hook ... "swiver": a reaper who "' swives " the grain
- We started swiving , that is reaping, at the beginning of August-month, and we left the stooks [stalks] standing in the fields ...
- Moreover, according to Walter Davies "swiving " was a method of reaping first adopted in Cardiganshire.
Derived terms
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* *skive
English
Noun
(en noun)page 93
- Thus, American diamond cutters would talk of a skive (after Dutch schijf ), where their British colleagues would say disk or wheel.
Verb
(skiv)Young offenders: Arrested development
- Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.
