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Posted By: wwh swivet - 01/26/04 02:15 PM
If you swive too swiftly, you'll get in a swivet.

Posted By: Jackie Re: swivet - 01/26/04 04:20 PM
This was a word that my Tennessee relatives used fairly often. My cousin commented that he really didn't hear it from other people.

Posted By: jheem Re: swivet - 01/26/04 05:08 PM
As in sleepy? Curiously, I have found it to be defined 'dreamy' and 'extremely agitated'. And a variant spelling swevet. It's related to Latin sopor from the PIE root *swep-no- 'sleep, dream'.

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