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[edit]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
[edit]sweb (third-person singular simple present swebs, present participle swebbing, simple past and past participle swebbed)
- (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
[edit]sweb (plural swebs)
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) A swoon.
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