sweb

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English

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Etymology

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

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To swoon; faint.
    Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun.
    She fainted, all drenched in sweat, from the heat of the desert sun.

Noun

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sweb (plural swebs)

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

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