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sweb

sweb

English

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Verb

sweb ‎(third-person singular simple present swebs, present participle swebbing, simple past and past participle swebbed)

  1. (intransitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England) To swoon; faint.
    Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun.

Noun

sweb ‎(plural swebs)

  1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) A swoon.

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Etymology

From Middle English swebben ‎(“to sleep, swoon”), from Old English swebban ‎(“to put to sleep, lull, kill”), from Proto-Germanic *swabjaną, *swēbijaną ‎(“to lull, put to sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swep-, *sup- ‎(“to sleep”). Cognate with Icelandic svefja ‎(“to sleep”), Latin sōpiō ‎(“put to sleep, lull”, verb). Related to sweven.

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