forswat
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English forswat, from Old English *forswǣtt, *forswǣted, past participle of Old English *forswǣtan (“to sweat excessively”), equivalent to for- + sweat.
Adjective edit
forswat (comparative more forswat, superlative most forswat)
- (obsolete) Overheated; covered with sweat.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender Conteyning twelve Æglogues proportionable to the twelve monethes, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton:
- She is my Goddess plain, And I her Shepherd's Swain, Albe forswonk and forswat I am.