Swiped vs Swived - What's the difference?
swiped | swived |
(swipe)
To steal or snatch.
* 1968 , , 00:48:18:
To scan or register by sliding something through a reader.
To grab or bat quickly.
(countable) A quick grab, bat, or other motion with the hand or paw; A sweep.
(countable) A strong blow given with a sweeping motion, as with a bat or club.
(countable, informal) A rough guess; an estimate or swag.
(uncountable) Poor, weak beer; small beer.
(swive)
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
As verbs the difference between swiped and swived
is that swiped is (swipe) while swived is (swive).swiped
English
Verb
(head)swipe
English
Verb
(swip)- Hey! Who swiped my lunch?
- "Maybe I could swipe some Tintex from the five-and-dime."
- He swiped his card at the door.
- The cat swiped at the shoelace.
Noun
- Take a swipe at the answer, even if you're not sure.
Anagrams
*swived
English
Verb
(head)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.