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swive. Swive or swyve, related to swerve and used by Chaucer and many English writers, was an early synonym for sexual congress. There was no shame attached to the expression; in fact, a 17th-century Scottish translation of the Book of Genesis, with all its “begots,” was called the Buke of Swiving. The O.E.D. tells us of an old ballad about Richard of Alemaigne, a legen- dary king of Germany who “spend al is treasour opon swyving.” |