Swear vs Sweal - What's the difference?
swear | sweal |
To take an oath.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
(lb) To use offensive language.
Heavy.
Top-heavy; too high.
Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
Niggardly.
A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
To burn slowly.
To melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.
To singe; scorch; dress (as a hog) with burning or singeing.
(dialectal) To consume with fire; burn.
(dialectal) To make disappear; cause to waste away; diminish; reduce.
*1913 ,
*:Here!—But you know, they can sweal a tumour away.
In intransitive terms the difference between swear and sweal
is that swear is to use offensive language while sweal is to melt and run down, as the tallow of a candle; waste away without feeding the flame.As verbs the difference between swear and sweal
is that swear is to take an oath while sweal is to burn slowly.As a noun swear
is a swearword.As an adjective swear
is heavy.swear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sweren, swerien, from (etyl) through Proto-Indo-European.Verb
Synonyms
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* In sense 1, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
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* swear by * swear like a trooper * swear on a stack of Bibles * swear out * swear to God * swear wordEtymology 2
From the above verb, or from (etyl) sware, from (etyl) swaru, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) swer, swar, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(en-adj)Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)sweal
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Walter Scott)