swike

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Verb

swike (swikes, present participle swiking; past swoke, past participle swicken)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To deceive, cheat; betray
2. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To stop, blin, cease

Adjective

swike

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Deceitful; treacherous

Noun

swike (plural swikes)

1. (dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) Deceit; treachery
2. (dialectal or obsolete) A deceiver; betrayer, traitor
   • 1848, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings:

     The Saxon Chronicle contradicts itself as to Algar's outlawry, stating in one passage that he was outlawed without any kind of guilt, and in another that he was outlawed as swike, or traitor, and that he made a confession of it before all the men there gathered.

3. (dialectal or obsolete) A hiding place; den; cave

Related terms

• beswike

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