swike
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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- IPA(key): /swaɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪk
Verb
editswike (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
editswike (comparative more swike, superlative most swike)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Deceitful; treacherous.
Noun
editswike (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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editIndonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Zhangzhou Hokkien 水雞/水鸡 (súi-ke, “frog”, literally “water; river + fowl; chicken”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editswiké (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 of Indonesia, 2016.
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