swike
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English swiken, from Old English swīcan (“to wander, depart, cease from, yield, give way, fail, fall short, be wanting, abandon, desert, turn traitor, deceive, rebel”), from Proto-West Germanic *swīkwan, from Proto-Germanic *swīkwaną, *swīkaną (“to dodge, swerve, avoid, betray”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyg- (“to turn, move around, wander, swing”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
swike (third-person singular simple present swikes, present participle swiking, simple past swoke, past participle swicken)
- (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To deceive, cheat; betray.
- (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To stop, cease.
Adjective edit
swike (comparative more swike, superlative most swike)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Deceitful; treacherous.
Noun edit
swike (plural swikes)
- (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Deceit; treachery.
- (dialectal or obsolete) A deceiver; betrayer, traitor.
- 1848, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Harold, the Last of the Saxons:
- The Saxon Chronicle contradicts itself as to Algar's outlawry, stating in one passage that he was outlawed without any kind of guilt, and in another that he was outlawed as swike, or traitor, and that he made a confession of it before all the men there gathered.
- (dialectal or obsolete) A hiding place; den; cave.
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Hokkien 水雞/水鸡 (súi-ke, “frog”, literally “water; river + fowl; chicken”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
swiké (first-person possessive swikeku, second-person possessive swikemu, third-person possessive swikenya)
Further reading edit
- “swike” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.