swop
English
editPronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /swɑp/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /swɒp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology 1
editNoun
editswop (plural swops)
- Alternative spelling of swap
Verb
editswop (third-person singular simple present swops, present participle swopping, simple past and past participle swopped)
- Alternative spelling of swap
- 1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 315:
- 'We make a pair, by God and by St James! / But, brother, what do you say to swopping names?'
Etymology 2
editNoun
editswop (uncountable)