Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to have sexual intercourse (with); thus swiving n., sexual intercourse; thus literary use Swiveland n., a supposed ‘land’ of copulation/sexuality.

c.1386		Chaucer Reeve’s Tale line 4177: For Iohn, seyde he, als ever moot I thryve, If that I may yon wenche wil I swyve.
1540		D. Lyndsay Satyre of Thrie Estaits III i: Manifestly, during thair lusty lyvis, Thay swyve ladeis, madinins, and menis wyves.
1593		Nashe Choise of Valentines (1899) 7: As you desire, so shall you swiue with hir.
1598		Florio Worlde of Wordes n.p.: fottere [...] to iape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupy.
1620–50		‘Off Alle The Seaes’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) IV 7: Off all the seas thats cominge, / of all the woods that risinge, / of all the ffishes in the sea, / give me a womans swivinge.
1654		Mercurius Fumigosus 24 8–15 Nov. 105: But come (quoth he) let’s swive [?] and melt together, / Nor Bashfulness nor Modesty weighs a feather.
1656		R. Fletcher (trans.) Martiall his Epigrams XI No. 98 110: I can swive four times a night: But thee Once in four years I cannot occupie.
1667		‘Ballad’ in Wilson Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 11: Next comes Castlemaine, / That prerogative quean; / If I had such a bitch I would spay her. / She swives like a stoat, / Goes to’t leg and foot.
1672		J. Lacy Old Troop IV i: Now here be de Queen of Swiveland, she sit in great Majesty; her leg hang over de chair, vera full of temptation, make your chops watra.
1680		School of Venus (2004) 4: In the Second Dialogue [...] The variety of postures Roger had put her in, and how afterwards he had Swived her in various manners.
1684		Rochester (attrib.) Sodom I i: Thus in the Zenith of my lust I reigne: / I eat to swive & Swive to eat againe.
a.1691		‘News’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 160: A Parsons wife not apt to swive, / Hey ho, that’s news indeed.
1709		N. Chorier (trans.) of Meursius ‘The Delights of Venus’ in Cabinet of Love (1739) 200: Let’s now proceed t’instruct you in the Game; / That Game that brings the most substantial Bliss; / For Swiving of all Games the sweetest is.
1720		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy VI 265: And tho’ she was Aged near threescore and five, / She kickt up her Heels and resolved to [swive].
1744		Machine 11: With fresh found cundum thou may’st swive each Night.
a.1749		Robertson of Struan ‘A Song’ Poems (1752) 267: Which could not but soon recommend her to Town, / Where Drinking and Swiving were so much admir’d.
1763		J. Wilkes Essay on Woman 11: Awake, my Fanny, leave all meaner things, / This morn shall prove what rapture swiving brings.
1770		‘The Bucks Midnight Ramble’ Rural Lover’s Delight Pt 1 27: Rolling Bob recovered soon, / Sweet slily crept out of the room, / And swiv’d the landlord’s daughter.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1879		‘Queen Bathsheba’ Pearl 2 Aug. 31: He got her at once with child of a son, / And he said a long grace when the swiving was done.
1890		‘Neaniskos’ Priapeia Ep. lvii 56: Aged crone, Sues me for swive she may never lack!
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 246: souffler en cul. To copulate; ‘to swive’.
1925		E. Field ‘A French Crisis’ Facetiae Americana 18: She did not swive for sustenance, she rather liked to swive.
1978		Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 118: He misses [...] ass-bandit, formerly molrower (now obsolete, like so many other vivid sex terms: swive, Athenian, ell, etc.).
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 197: There are various semi-technical terms for acting thus, such as [...] swive, roger, copulate, coit, flute and go tromboning.
2004		Guardian G2 3 Aug. 7/1: Impertinent swive-obsessed columns in tabloid [...] newspapers.

2. to have anal intercourse.

1728		J. Dalton Narrative of Street-Robberies 42: Let the Fops of the Town upbraid / Us, for an unnatural Trade, / We value not Man nor Maid, / But among our own selves we’ll be free [...] We’ll kiss and we’ll Sw--e, / Behind we will drive.
1890		‘Neaniskos’ Priapeia Ep. xxxv 34: Thief, for first thieving shalt be swived.