manswear

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To swear falsely; perjure oneself. UK,dialectal,transitive
    — I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.

词形变化

manswears present,singular,third-person manswearing participle,present manswore past mansworn participle,past mainswear alternative,Northern-England manswere alternative,Scotland maneswere alternative,Scotland maneswere alternative,Scotland mansweir alternative,Scotland

词源

From Middle English mansweren, from Old English mānswerian (“to forswear, perjure oneself”), from mān (“bad, criminal, false”) + swerian (“to swear”).
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