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sweb

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/swɛb/

Definition of sweb

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

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

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

noun

  1. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal)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 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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