sweb

• swab

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.

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.

sweb (plural swebs)

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

• swebby

• EBWs, WBEs, webs