Sweb

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A swoon. Northern-England, UK, dialectal
Verb
  1. 1
    To swoon; faint. Northern-England, UK, dialectal, intransitive

    "Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun."

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faintfaintswelter

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"Hoo swebbed, all droked in sweat, frae the heat o' the desert sun."

Etymology

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.

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