Middle English Dictionary Entry
swī̆ke n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | swī̆ke n.(1) Also (early) swica, (SWM) sweoke, swoke & (early gen.) swiken & (in surname) suik; pl. swikes, (early) swiken(e, swicen, suike. |
| Etymology | OE swica |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A traitor; a deceiver; -- often applied to Satan; lede (lond) ~, a traitor to one's country; lord ~, q.v.; (b) as surname.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1135 : Agenes him risen sona þa ricemen þe wæron swikes.
- a1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)25 : He seið mið þa muðe þet nis naut in his heorte..Ah al swa he doð swa þe swica þe bi-swikeð hine seolfe onende.
- a1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)103 : Hwet sculen ordlinghes don, þa swicen [Eg(2): swikene; McC: suike] and ta forsworene?
- a1200(?c1175) PMor.(Trin-C B.14.52)278 : Þar beð naddren and snaken..Þe tereð and freteð þo euele swiken.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)378 : His sawen..weren lease, for he was leodene swike [Otho: leod-swike].
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6459 : He..feol an his cneowen, & þus leh þa leod-swike biuoren his lauerd.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8034 : He scal alle þa swiken swenien mid eiȝe.
- c1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)11406 : Þat is elches swiken laȝen.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)52/10 : Feond þe þuncheð freond is sweoke ouer alle.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)121/24 : Lo, þe sweoke [Cleo: swoke], hu he walde makien hire aleast to leapen in to prude.
- a1250 Lofsong Louerde (Nero A.14)211 : Beo mi scheld..aȝein þes feondes flon þet he scheot to me on euche halue, þe swike.
- (c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2401 : Þu fule man, þu wicke swike [rime: kuneriche]!
- a1350 *Body & S.(4) (Hrl 2253)92 : Þenne sayþ ihesu crist to sathanas þe vnhende, 'fare awey, þe foule swyke.'
- c1330(?c1300) Reinbrun (Auch)p.655 : Me lordes swike euer was he; Þourȝ him in al þis sorwe we be.
- ?a1425 Glo.Chron.B (Dgb 205)6399 : Luþer swikes [vr. lond swykes; A: Alle traitours & louerd suiken god late hom so spede].
b
- (1199) in Pipe R.Soc.n.s.10280 : Leueua Swike.
- (1268-9) Assize R.Nhb.in Sur.Soc.88162 : Robertus Suyk.