FORSWEAR

PRONUNCIATION: (for-SWAR)

MEANING: verb tr., intr.:
1. To renounce something.
2. To commit perjury.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English forswerian, from for- (away, off) + swerian (to swear). Ultimately from the Indo-European root swer- (to speak), which also gave us the word answer. Earliest documented use: before 1000.
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FORSKWEAR - forceful, definite, forthright

FORKSWEAR - what you do after you accidentally step on the wrong end of a pitchfork and it bounds up and whops you upside the head

FORSE WEAR - You put on those clothes or, so help me, you'll never...

CORSE WE AR - We're in favor of Motherhood and Apple pie, aren't we?